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Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Auto

sentdex · 765.9K views · 2021-06-18 · 17:08

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Sentdex demonstrates GAN Theft Auto, a GameGAN-based neural network that recreates GTA V so the network itself is the playable environment. He shows the results and releases the code.

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Cited as an early, striking demo of neural networks acting as game engines and world models.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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7734128 · 2024-08 · Recommendation

What you're describing reminded me of this cool project: [VIDEO] "Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Auto"

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eru · 2022-12 · Recommendation

> You could directly encode the elements as understanded by the process used to generate them, rather than attempting to reconstitute things from a stream of bitmaps. You might like Gan Theft Auto: [VIDEO]

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ALittleLight · 2022-04 · Recommendation

This YouTube video, to me, shows the promise of things to come. AI generated game worlds. Language models to generate plots and dialog, transformers and GANs to create illustrations. Imagine a game, a truly open world sand box, Grand Theft Auto meets AI Dungeon - every NPC is a "real" person with unlimited dialog options, the buildings you drive by you could easily walk in and investigate, unlimited play space - you could type in more general instructions and ideas to the plot generator ("add in a vampire romance and murder mystery angle") on the fly. [VIDEO]

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