This AI Can Make Endless Super Mario Bros. Levels With Just A Few Words #MarioGPT
If Mario Maker doesn’t have enough levels for you this might be for you. MarioGPT is an “open-ended text2level generation through large language models” Mario level creator.
I’m sure this is just the begining of AI designed video games. Via Kotaku:
The same thing can be done for video games. Created by a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, MarioGPT is a tool that can generate an endless supply of side-scrolling level layouts based on classic Super Mario Bros. stages. According to Sebastian Risi, an AI researcher who collaborated on the project, the trained tool uses “a fine-tuned GPT2 model” to gobble up text prompts and spit out levels that somewhat mirror what an actual human might create. Risi noted on Twitter that although MarioGPT “sometimes” fails to create levels on a given prompt, it “works well” in most other situations.
Read more and check out the full details of MarioGPT from the creators here, and the code on GitHub
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