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MarioGPT To Generate Infinite Super Mario Levels For Free

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Researchers at IT University of Copenhagen have developed a new method for encoding and generating Super Mario Bros levels called MarioGPT.

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MarioGPT is based on GPT-2, a large language model that is good at pattern recognition and replication.

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MarioGPT can generate an infinite number of Mario levels that can be played every day.

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GPT-2 was chosen because it is better suited for smaller datasets, although GPT-3 may be used in the future.

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The researchers had to first represent the Mario levels as text so that the model could understand them.

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The model then ingests the text and reproduces the patterns that correlate with features.

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The output includes a playable path represented as lowercase x's.

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A software agent was able to complete nine out of 10 of the levels generated by MarioGPT.

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The new method has implications for the creation of other types of games.

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The research demonstrates the potential for combining language models and gaming.

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