Image Recognition
Sure, it’s probably been a while since you played one of the original NES games, but probably because they’re so familiar. What if I told you researchers had created a way to generate infinite Mario levels so you can play a brand new one every day until the sun burns out? A team at IT University of Copenhagen just released a (pre-pub) paper and GitHub page showing a new method for encoding and generating Super Mario Bros levels, which they call MarioGPT. Its output includes a “path” represented as lowercase x’s, essentially showing that the level is technically playable. 😄 pic.twitter.com/mZJdp2WV83 — Sebastian Risi (@risi1979) February 14, 2023Coincidentally, Julian Togelius at NYU GameLab and his group just wrote a paper showing a similar process for “sokoban” or block-pushing puzzle games.