Google researchers run Doom on a self-generating AI model [Video]

The big picture: Doom has been run on just about every piece of hardware imaginable. Now, a new project from Google uses the iconic game – and the meme surrounding its ubiquity – to showcase an alternative method of running game engines with AI. The developers suggest that this could be an early step toward “generating” interactive games from prompts.

Those who claim that generative AI will allow people to create films, TV shows, or interactive games entirely through prompts are often dismissed as grifters. However, a new engine from Google has recently demonstrated significant progress in interactive scene generation using the iconic first-person shooter Doom.

Modders have famously ported Doom to things like lawnmowers, Notepad, a milliwatt neural chip, Teletext, and other games. But in this latest experiment from a team from Google and …