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It had to happen. Currently, you can hardly save yourself from LLM news. Unless you decide to not even turn on the digital-things™ all day long. But who can afford to do that? And who wants that?

And so it came as it had to come, Machine Learning meets Super Mario Bros.

Dave McQuilling - to be found on twitter as @DaveyMaccy - has gathered all the details about the project called MarioGPT. Short version: Make your own levels. Quite interesting actually, if you don't feel like just playing your own level creations.

As a generative pre-trained transformer, it's certainly not one of the first application scenarios, that come to mind. But I'm really just waiting for LooGPT and friends ... and I'm quite sure that at least one very innovative "AI startup" is already working on it. News on that, when the time has come. In the meantime, have fun with this small but very nice level builder, should you get it to run.