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Google Sees AI Agents Getting Into the Video Games We Play

Google Sees AI Agents Getting Into the Video Games We Play

Google’s latest AI agent is learning how to navigate a familiar space: gaming. The tech giant released new research on its Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, or SIMA, on Wednesday. This agent can follow instructions to carry out tasks in video games — and play games it has never seen before. But, like Genie, which DeepMind, Google’s AI research arm, discussed in a research paper published Feb. 23, SIMA is a research project. “We could in the future have agents like SIMA playing alongside… Source link

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Google’s new AI will play video games with you — but not to win

Google’s new AI will play video games with you — but not to win

Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing. SIMA, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is currently only in research. SIMA will eventually learn how to play any video game, even games with no linear path to end the game and open-world games. Though it’s not intended to replace existing game AI, think of it more as another player that meshes well with your… Source link

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How a viral video helped this woman land

How a viral video helped this woman land

Tech layoffs which started at the beginning of 2023 haven’t showed any signs of slowing down. In fact, they have gathered more intensity since the turn of the year. Almost every big company has fired thousands of employees. One such employee was Mariana Kobayashi who was laid off from LinkedIn in June 2023. According to a report by Business Insider, she is now working with Google in Dublin. And it all started because of a viral video. She made a hiring video which showcased her… Source link

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How a Woman Landed a Role at Google With the Help of a Viral Video

How a Woman Landed a Role at Google With the Help of a Viral Video

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Mariana Kobayashi first applied for a role at Google in June 2023. Mariana Kobayashi Mariana Kobayashi is an account executive at Google’s Dublin office. After being laid off from LinkedIn, she sent a job application video to Google. She missed out on the first role, but she said the video got Google’s attention. It’s notoriously difficult to get a job at Google. The tech giant, once famous for its lavish perks,… Source link

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Google’s Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal

Google’s Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal

Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in a video (space) and how they simultaneously move and change (time). Ars Technica reports this method lets Lumiere create the video in one process instead of putting smaller still frames together.  Lumiere starts with creating a base frame from the prompt. Then, it uses the STUNet framework to begin approximating where objects within that frame… Source link

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Google’s AI video generator tech is pretty amazing. See for yourself

Google’s AI video generator tech is pretty amazing. See for yourself

Google Research Since the release of DALL-E 2 at the end of 2022, text-to-image generators have been all the rage with plenty of worthy competitors entering the market. Now, over a year later, we are at the dawn of a new technology: AI video generation.  On Tuesday, Google Research released a research paper on Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that can create highly realistic video from text prompts and other images.  Also: The best AI image generators of 2024: DALL-E 2 and… Source link

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