Google Creates AI 'Genie' That Turns Text and Sketches Into Playable 2D Video Games
• Google researchers created Genie, an AI model that can turn a text prompt, sketch, or idea into a 2D video game world.
• Genie was trained on over 200,000 hours of online gameplay videos to learn physics and character motions.
• It can take any image and convert it into a playable 2D game by generating assets and predicting next frames based on player actions.
• While not yet a full holodeck, Genie shows progress towards one day creating customizable, interactive worlds from simple prompts.
• The unsupervised learning approaches used to train Genie could also help robots better navigate real-world environments.