I turned a transformer into a game console that runs Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders and 116 more games.
I turned a CHIP-8 game console into a decoder-only transformer.
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- The transformer is the game engine.
- It executes instructions, updates machine memory, and renders every frame through next-token prediction.
- Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders and a bunch of other CHIP-8 games run on the same model.
- Even the compatibility quirks are encoded in the initial prompt, so different games don't need different weights.
Sources (1)
- [1]I turned a transformer into a game console that runs Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders and 116 more games.r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 15, 06:57 PM
I turned a CHIP-8 game console into a decoder-only transformer.
The transformer is the game engine.
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