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GPT-6 Astra Can Build Video Games Fast, but They Look Awfully Familiar

OpenAI says Astra can work inside tools like Blender and Unreal Engine, while early demos show game prototypes resembling existing hits.

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OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has announced a new AI model, GPT-6 Astra. Among other things, including being hailed by people financially invested in AI as the arrival of AGI, or artificial general intelligence, I think what those financially invested folks are telling us is something we should care about, I guess: Astra can allegedly develop video games at remarkable speed. Or, more realistically, it can rapidly make knockoffs of existing games.

Demos collected by Kotaku have shown Astra recreating video game-like things resembling Super Smash Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and what appears to be The Simpsons: Hit-&-Run.

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