Over the last few decades, video games have evolved to the point where many now consider them a form of art, much like cinema and television. This shift has also led to games becoming increasingly ...

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AI is a genie that refuses to go back in the bottle—no matter how much I plead, "Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!" Enter Google's Genie 2, another generative model. However, ...

I was worried about Concrete Genie’s depiction of bullying until the main character was pushed to the ground and hit hard in the gut. That probably makes me sound sick in the head, but up until that ...

TL;DR: Google DeepMind's Genie 2 is a foundation world model that generates 3D environments from a single image, improving on its predecessor's 2D capabilities. It supports complex interactions, ...

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more ...

While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn’t stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a big pile of inference.