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Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Auto

sentdex · demo · Watch on YouTube

LLMs & generative AIMachine learning & deep learningGame programming & engines

What it is

Sentdex demonstrates GAN Theft Auto, a GameGAN-based neural network that recreates GTA V so the network itself is the playable environment. He shows the results and releases the code.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as an early, striking demo of neural networks acting as game engines and world models.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video really amazed me in terms of automated game development.”

    Shows promise of automated game generation.

    ALittleLight, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Where are the robotic bricklayers?”

  2. “You might like Gan Theft Auto”

    Neural net encodes game world rather than bitmaps.

    eru, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis”

  3. “reminded me of this cool project”

    Cool related project of neural network GTA.

    7734128, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “Diffusion models are real-time game engines”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: gan, gamegan, gta v, world models, generative ai

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