An AI is making new Super Mario Bros. levels you can play from your browser

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has developed an artificial intelligence called MarioGPT which has been programmed to create levels of Super Mario Bros. by simply dictating some parameters. How many pipes do you want them with? How many blocks? Many? Few? None? Fancy adding enemies? Ground elevations, perhaps? You choose. In a matter of seconds, the AI designs a level for you according to your preferences. And although they are very basic and far from what we have seen in Super Mario Maker, the stages are usually perfectly functional and they can be played and created for free from any browser. We leave you the link so you can try it out yourself:

MarioGPT owes its name to the fact that it uses GPT-2, an OpenAI tool into which its creators have fed all of the original levels from Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros 2. That is to say that we are barely at the starting box, since there is already GPT-3 and dozens of other Mario games whose resources can be used. Those responsible, with Shyam Sudhakaran at the helm, have published the corresponding project document and opened a GitHub page where they explain how it works. The graphics and images used for it are fascinating:

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We just hope that MarioGPT doesn't end up like the AI that created new episodes of Seinfeld, the well-known sitcom by Larry David, and broadcasted them for free and uninterruptedly on its own Twitch channel, in which it reached an average of 10,000 concurrent spectators. In just a few days, the AI started making transphobic and homophobic jokes and was banned from the platform. Not quite the machine revolution we were expecting. In any case, it seems like the subject of artificial intelligence has come to stay and is one of the bases on which the future is being built. Will it come out well?