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An 8-bit plumber with a mustache and a taste for mushrooms was the height of cutting-edge entertainment in 1985.

Its a long-form version of the kind of text-to-video tools quickly growing in popularity.

MarioVGG

It is trained on more than 737,000 frames of gameplay footage from SuperMarioBros.

you could see a bit of MarioVGGs performance below.

Its simultaneously astonishingly good at recreating the game’s look while also full of glaring errors and flaws.

MarioVGG

Thats much more complex than static images or simple actions in a video.

Googles GameNGen recently showed off a playable version of Doom produced by an AI model.

AI is currently much better at text-based games with occasional illustrations than something like a Mario game.

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