After Gemini and Nano Banana Pro, Google is launching Project Genie, its AI capable of generating an artificial 3D world... playable like in a video game.
Progress cannot be stopped, and Google is the perfect example of this. Two years ago, the first videos generated by artificial intelligence showed a degenerate Will Smith with seven fingers eating spaghetti Bolognese, but today artificial intelligence is capable of the most impressive achievements. On Thursday evening, the web giant unveiled Project Genie, an artificial intelligence capable of generating 3D worlds.
A video demonstration has been released to illustrate its capabilities:
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The impact was immediate, with Project Genie shaking up a whole section of the industry. Take-Two Interactive and CD Projekt fell by 8%, Roblox by 13%, and Unity Software—which provides a development platform—dropped by 24%.
This new tool is capable of generating a complete environment and adapting it in real time to the user's actions.
For now, access is limited to the United States and reserved for Google AI Ultra subscribers. It is still only a prototype, with some limitations: one-minute sessions, high latency, and image quality capped at 720p.
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
This is complete garbage, and outside of novelty factor doesn't really provide anything of worth.
I agree with you.
So far, nothing ever came close to mimiquing human's creativity.
I'm not a luddite or anything, but I put(buy) literal stock in other things than to bet it all on AI right now.
AFAIK, AI so far hasn't provided anything business-wise that's massively distruptive. A human being at the end of the day always did a better job than what I call AINS (AI Non-Sense).
I'd love to be more verbose on what AI limitations are in my world for example, and while I obvioulsy can't say more, let me tell you that no one is gonna rely heavily on it for any "real" purpose as it stands, anytime soon.
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
Seems to me a lot of rich tech-illiterate boomers are getting robbed out of their investment money through the mere mention of AI anything.
Why consume any creative product if it does not come from a living human being whose experience I can understand? These people don't even understand the industries they're trying to force this slop into. I give zero fucks what a machine shits out whether it's a video, video game, social media post or whatever. It's a dead machine.
Baby steps. There will be amazing things eventually. Image (stills) generation just 4 years ago was laughable, now we are seeing videos and we have no idea if its real or not because its how good it is. The Beggar´s Canyon SW short movies are pretty good, though yes, in 1-2 years probably feeling super outdated, just like this.
Recently, stocks of several major video-game companies dropped, and one of the main triggers was Google’s AI project called Project Genie.
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Bot? You don't agree with my opinion, so its must be bot? Aint you the special entitled snowflake who even invented name, AINS, lmao, you are such a entitled nerd sorry, you must be very fun at parties.
Anyway regarding topic, give it a year or two, it will shine, really outstanding work from Google.
Baby steps. There will be amazing things eventually. Image (stills) generation just 4 years ago was laughable, now we are seeing videos and we have no idea if its real or not because its how good it is. The Beggar´s Canyon SW short movies are pretty good, though yes, in 1-2 years probably feeling super outdated, just like this.
What do you define as amazing? Do you actually believe AI will ever be capable of making even a remotely decent game from a prompt? Do you understand how stupid that is?
At best it could maybe add a fucking skin from your prompt on a pre-existing template, and that would result in the most generic, nonsensical slop.
Not to mention that there's no fucking way that kind of idea and use could ever be profitable. This is all a scam/grift to fool retarded investors and just test and work on further developing LLMs. Do you understand how much power this uses, and how much hardware, just to make this small little nothing world where you can walk around with floaty controls?
None of this AI shit is anything but a money sink, where they hope they make something that saves them before they run out of money. It's all just dump. It's a race to the bottom, and not only are they ruining themselves, but they're destroying the personal computer market on the way down.
As for videos made with AI? Again, do you understand how much money the companies offering these services are burning through now, even for that? Not to mention how much fiddling and how many prompts and splicing is required to get anything cohesive and of any decent quality.
It's amazing cash cow, but that's about it. I very much doubt that wasd and arrow keys do anything. They imply user control, but for ai to generate something on that level in real time, you'd need super computer computing power. At very best, you're then looking at cloud gaming, with all drawbacks multiplied because you're doing on the fly computing. At worst, it's investment scam.
A.i. is a partitial bubble and will burst.
There is a usecase for it and it will dramatically change some spaces but not everything has to be a.i. centered.
In the end it's a huge investment scam like the huge and popular "meta verse" was. Remember how non techies would praise it to the heavens and say everything will be inside of the metaverse. (until it wasnt)
Baby steps. There will be amazing things eventually. Image (stills) generation just 4 years ago was laughable, now we are seeing videos and we have no idea if its real or not because its how good it is. The Beggar´s Canyon SW short movies are pretty good, though yes, in 1-2 years probably feeling super outdated, just like this.
What do you define as amazing? Do you actually believe AI will ever be capable of making even a remotely decent game from a prompt? Do you understand how stupid that is?
A prompt? No, many prompts. I use it to make games and i have seen how immensely better it has become in just one year. When i started a year ago it was actually quite bad to do coding with AI, today, everything just works. I know a lot of programmers, almost everyone uses AI now because of how fast it is to work with. There is no doubt AI programming will be what we will use. I think most big companies agrees with this. I somehow doubt you are even following which game engines now have AI capabilities, and this is just the start of that.
Luckily no one will listen to naysayers, just like we did not listen to it for electricity, computers, internet and tons of other things which has proven to be essential for a modern civilization.
If people like you would have had your way we would have stopped at calculators (they were as big as a house at one point, of course very power hungry in comparison to modern calculator and of course people were sceptical, same when computers came, internet - it would never be thing according to some). Fortunately sanity usually wins and it will win here too, you have never been right once.
Meta verse, pfft. no one believed that would be a thing apart from Zuck. It was a running joke from the start. AI has already taken off big time, nothing can stop it now. For science alone its mind blowing, and has solved so much stuff just in the last year, solving biology’s protein structure problem was huge!
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It's amazing cash cow, but that's about it. I very much doubt that wasd and arrow keys do anything.
lol? thats the whole idea. you can control it. that is old tech at this point too, we saw this 1-1.5 year ago, of course it looked like garbage then. I have linked to it in the past. i would argue it still needs 2-3 years to be something super impressive, i am hard to impress when it comes to games.
cloud gaming will likely become bigger yes, and like everything it will get better since its tech. while i am an old school gamer i wouldnt say its something i personally gel with, but since i am also very interested/invested in gaming overall i do realize potential etc.
The games possible on super computers with AI for example. cool if you are a millionaire and can run locally, but i can see how we likely will move away from local gaming (not for all gaming, but for the Premium, most hitech stuff), maybe until tech catches up and everyone can afford to run close-to-quantum computers.. that will take a while.
A prompt? No, many prompts. I use it to make games and i have seen how immensely better it has become in just one year. When i started a year ago it was actually quite bad to do coding with AI, today, everything just works. I know a lot of programmers, almost everyone uses AI now because of how fast it is to work with. There is no doubt AI programming will be what we will use. I doubt you are even following which game engines now have AI, and this is just the start of that.
Luckily no one will listen to naysayers, just like we did not listen to it for electricity, computers, internet and tons of other things which has proven to be essential for a modern civilization.
If people like you would have had your way we would have stopped at calculators (they were as big as a house at one point, of course very power hungry in comparison to modern calculator and of course people were sceptical, same when computers came, internet - it would never be thing according to some). Fortunately sanity usually wins and it will win here too, you have never been right once.
Meta verse, pfft. no one believed that would be a thing apart from Zuck. It was a running joke from the start.
Get a grip on reality. You're not even arguing the point, there's a difference between using AI to feed you lines of code and it creating a fucking game from a prompt like the fucking thing we're talking about in this thread.
Not to mention that even for that you need to double and triple check it since it still hallucinates and gives you made up shit. Plus, even when it does give you code that works, that doesn't mean it is efficient, good code. And given how shit games are optimized and how shit windows has been latelty or nvidia drivers, I'm not impressed with the use of AI.
But nah man, I'm the problem not morons that go all in without any actual plan on a lie. Just let them continue to buy up all the hardware and horde it, whilst not having any place to actually build the servers, nor being able to sustain the ever increasing power draw. Let it just rot there for a few years, become outdated. And all this investment for what?
I'm not saying AI doesn't have a place or can't be useful, but it's all a scam right now. Everybody's losing billions on this shit, and they keep investing on a hope they are at the top when/if someone succeeds and makes something useful.
This isn't like computers or some other tangible thing like that. This is like the dot-com bubble, just stupid money thrown around with no actual thought. Companies like NVIDIA are scamming the fuck out of all these morons.
Get a grip yourself, this is not tech made for making commercial games, its something for kids etc to have fun with. Take a photo of your room, make it a game etc.
Who is arguing Genie is for making commercial games comparable to AAA games? lol. of course its garbage in comparison to a game with a lot of thought put into it. It doesnt compare, and its not trying to be that either.
Yes, in the past you had to do that, check for hallucinated stuff. not any longer really. I dont think you are very up to date. You do realize that in just 2 weeks tons of stuff happens for AI programming right? That will not stop either.
Just because people make money of it doesnt make it a scam. Gaming is also profitable, yet its not a scam. That doesnt mean i dont think there is ANY scams in gaming or with AI, of course there is, tons of it
Right now, people with no money are the big winners. To have this kind of expertise for free? Its mindblowing. I have seen people win court cases via AI against big, big companies. That is a huge win for us with no money. I could never afford hiring people to program games for me, now i can do it, not for free, but almost.
Power cost is the big issue, but it will be solved. We solved it many times before for various things.
Yes, it's tech made for nothing. This is the most slop of slops. Nobody is being entertained by this for more than 5 min, even a child. Unless you're maybe one of these ipad kids that can barely speak and have grown on fucking trash yt series.
If you think AI doesn't still hallucinate and give bad/wrong answers then you are delusional.
People making money isn't what makes it a scam. That's the problem though... nobody is making money off AI, outside the people selling the hardware. They're the people selling the picks and shovels in a gold rush. Cause they're the smart ones.
Expertise? It's a fucking LLM it just regurgitates bullshit that's already known with questionable accuracy.
I don't believe anything about an imaginary case, just like how I don't believe you saw it. You likely read some made up shit, or it's a story about a lawyer that should be disbarred for losing to AI.
This whole "Oh, I couldn't hire people to program but now I can, so I can make games" idea is worthless. What does that give you? I personally don't think most people should make games. Even ones that work in the industry now. Let alone people using chat gpt. Steam is already majority garbage as is, it doesn't need more.
Its baby steps, how every tech begins. Go back to the birth of the camera, the first images were not very impressive. We still decided to continue, and here we are, movies, digital cameras etc. The first things for a specific tech might not be mind blowing, but it can show potential, something to explore and expand upon. If we stopped every time because the first baby steps of something didnt make us faint with excitement, then we would get nowhere.
Of course there are people making money of AI. That has been the main "moral dilemma" since the start - AI taking people´s jobs, because that will save / earn your company more money.
It can be for a big company or it can be a small business not needing a person to make their web site or make their art etc. But there are other ways to make money of AI too, tons of ways. you have entire subreddits and YT channels dedicated to it, if interested, and with proof of how they have earned money with it.
These LLMs are so complex that they are beyond human understanding. Not even the top scientists at Anthropic knows exactly how it works. We have had so many scientific breakthroughs that came from the use of AI just in the last year, you cant get that from "googling" stuff we already know, thats not AI. This is why we have tests for them too, SWE-bench etc, its equal to having the best in the business at your disposal, and this is getting better every 2-3 months. We can easily follow this progress.
I think far more people should make games, anyone with a creative mind, i love the idea that it isnt exclusive to people with money or people with programming knowledge because nothing says just because they have that means they are good designers of games.
Just as i love that anyone nowadays can take a picture, it can be a fun hobby, even for those with no to little money, and it can become a profession for someone who didnt even know he had that skill. We will discover many creative people who otherwise would have never tried it because its out of reach otherwise.
"The best models solve ~75–80% of real GitHub issues in standardized tests (SWE-bench Verified)."
this is phenomenally high. we will have AIs which are better or equal to the best programmers in the entire world, and that wont take long. Having unlimited access to that kind of programming skill is crazy, someone who can do it night and day. Not understanding the potential in this is
To say its just a scam is idiocy, it will change the world in probably more ways than the Internet ever did. And programming is just one of the skills an AI can have.
But these worlds aren't programmed as games. They're just moving images, it's still a flat 2d surface. There are no 3d models, wireframes, physics, or anything. It's just simulated based on the image and whatever button the user presses.
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
"The best models solve ~75–80% of real GitHub issues in standardized tests (SWE-bench Verified)."
this is phenomenally high. we will have AIs which are better or equal to the best programmers in the entire world, and that wont take long. Having unlimited access to that kind of programming skill is crazy, someone who can do it night and day. Not understanding the potential in this is
To say its just a scam is idiocy, it will change the world in probably more ways than the Internet ever did. And programming is just one of the skills an AI can have.
Damn what a fanboy.
People dont claim "a.i." isn't good doing certain things but that it's sold as a solution for everything and ppl are falling for it.
Babysteps" bla bla. Yeah who cares wake me up if they have something that remotely resembles an exciting game.
There that thing called procedually generation that is used in games since who knows when.
And yeah without human touch it's boring. Who cares if a game has 100000 planets if it's almost the same copy paste slop with minor differneces etc.
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Who is arguing Genie is for making commercial games comparable to AAA games? lol.
As Kezmark mentioned it's a scam investors fall for. As proof you can look at the stock prices of companies like rockstar whose stock fell after Project Genie got released. 0 tech knowledge 100% guillable believe in "A.i."
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But these worlds aren't programmed as games. They're just moving images, it's still a flat 2d surface. There are no 3d models, wireframes, physics, or anything. It's just simulated based on the image and whatever button the user presses.
No one said they are programmed games as we know games. It similar to the AI movies but with controls and some physics etc. Its very limited and I dont think this tech is the future of AI gaming at all, its just something for fun/experimental tech.
Investors are clueless people indeed. Doesnt make AI overall a scam. You are crazy if you dont see the potential in having AIs as good as the best programmers in the world, maybe having 100 agents doing various tasks for a game, with human direction and oversight. The recent clawbot stuff is insane, they are learning from each other, creating stuff together etc. The development of that in just 1 week is crazier than most sci-fi books ive read in my life lol
AI does not need to be without human interaction, as someone who makes synth and modular music including generative modular music its quite similar to that, happy accidents and all that. The human part is directing it, including scrapping stuff all the time.
Procedurally generated worlds is something i personally love, but i agree that at this stage it can get too samey. Terraria, Rimworld, NMS, Dwarf Fortress - incredible games with procedurally generated worlds and wouldnt be the same without it.. you could make them in super small scale and with human design, but to me that just wouldnt be playing the same games at all, i dont think it would benefit them at all. A big part of the fun is too see which "seed" you get from the generation.
I think the future is going to be a lot more wild than people think, especially for games and entertainment overall. What exists now is a taste, seeing the potential. When 3D games became a thing i dreamt of a future with games like GTA, though i probably didnt even expect that kind of graphics. Now i dream of different games and i know they will become a reality in a few years. Amazing times.
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