‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed

There’s a lot going on with video games and generative AI right now. Microsoft and Google have each created models that can dream up virtual worlds, with significant limitations. And people have been using Grok, the gen-AI chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, to make rudimentary clones of old arcade games.

All you have to do is type “write me Pong” and AI (sort of) does the rest, albeit quite badly. On Feb 21, xAI employee Taylor Silveira claimed to have created an accurate version of 1980…