New AI Model Can Recreate Super Mario Bros. Footage, But It's Full Of Glitches

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Researchers from tech company Virtuals Protocol have published a paper on a new text-to-video AI model, MarioVGG, which can simulate Super Mario Bros. footage via some basic text inputs (thanks, ArsTechnica).

The model was fed over 737,000 Mario Bros. frames, showing Nintendo's prized plumber in 32 different levels with varying degrees of success and failure (141 wins and 139 losses, according to Github). Based on these images, and how they are arranged, the AI model "learns" what commands such as "jump" and "run" correspond to on-screen and is then capable of simulating such commands in a video format, physics and all.

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