Google DeepMind Launches Project Genie For AI-Generated Worlds, Try It Here

Google DeepMind's Project Genie is a research prototype that allows users to "create, explore, and remix their own interactive worlds" based on text or image prompts. Regardless of what is used to generate the world, controls are limited to WASD, arrow keys, and the space bar, and the output will be capped to 720p resolution and 24 FPS, but the end result is still eye-opening.

While the limitations and long-term industry implications are worth scrutinizing, this is still an impressive technical achievement. This is especially true when compared to AI-generated Doom or Minecraft clones that have almost no persistent tracking of environmental spaces at all. In comparison, Project Genie has a much more convincing sense of space and consequence, and its high-fidelity graphics even allow it to generate playable facsimiles of AAA games like Elden Ring or Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild when potential copyright issues don ...