Google DeepMind's Genie 3 model slipped right by me, as my time away and under my comfy rock last week saw me oblivious to the company's new AI 'world model'. So excuse me for the somewhat delayed reaction to this, but hoo boy, have we come far with generative AI. Though as Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reminds us, we're actually kind of coming around full circle with it—back towards gaming.

On the latest Google AI: Release Notes podcast episode , the AI exec says: "The advent of the thinking models is a little bit of a hark back to our original gaming work on things like AlphaGo and AlphaZero."

AlphaGo started around 2014 to use deep learning to try and compete in games of go, and this was later generalised to form AlphaZero, which used deep learning to try to improve at and compet

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