his would be GTA 5 imagined by an Nvidia AI, based on watching gameplays of the game
“GAN Theft Auto” is the version of the game created by a neural network in real time, and without the need for code.
Artificial Intelligence has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and the rise of machine learning makes it possible to do all kinds of things that once seemed impossible. Like, for example, creating a game like Grand Theft Auto V in real time, and without writing a single line of code. Because that’s what a couple of AI researchers have done, shared by PC Gamer, who have trained a neural network with GTA V videos , to create a playable version on its own.
A scene that is limited to showing a car driving on a highway , allowing the player to control it as they would in the game. Okay, it looks very blurry, and the gameplay is limited, but this is all being created by the AI in real time and without any pre-existing code for the game. That is, he is “imagining” at the moment the complete scene, the movement and behavior of its elements, possible collisions and elements such as the shadow of the car, based on having seen gameplays of the game.
To do this, its creators have used GameGAN , Nvidia’s technology that uses two opposing neural networks to create content. A network acts as a generator , receives data (images, videos) and creates content based on it. Another network acts in reverse, discarding results that do not resemble what is sought, to ensure that the generator produces results that are close to reality. In doing so, the researchers trained their GAN with a dozen different gameplays of the same scene on the highway, to learn how vehicles move, their response to player input, what happens if they collide with highway barriers, etc.
The result is still far from what could be considered a real game, yes, but it is a demonstration of the potential that AI has to generate content on its own, for the future of video games. And who knows, if you go into its GitHub repository , and feed it with enough GTA V videos, maybe it will even make you a new installment, to alleviate that eternal wait until the new GTA 6 . We do not know when it will arrive, but Take-Two plans to publish 62 games in the next 3 years , and hope is lived.
