Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs

This week, a new generative AI tool from Google let me create bad knockoffs of 3D Nintendo worlds.

Check out my version of something like Super Mario 64:

I didn't like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, but it's better than my version of a Metroid Prime experience:

Or how about my take on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete with a paraglider (and, briefly, a second Link):

It was all possible thanks to Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that Google gave me access to this week...