Engineers, scientists, and adventurous enthusiasts from various fields have demonstrated that the iconic game Doom can be successfully operated on a wide range of unconventional devices, such as a lawnmower and even microscopic gut bacteria. Adrian de Wynter, a principal applied scientist at Microsoft, demonstrated on Wednesday that the widely-used AI chatbot ChatGPT is capable of playing Doom, although it does not perform well. The activity of testing different machines and gadgets to see if they can run Doom has gained popularity among hackers, researchers, and technology enthusiasts. In order to integrate Doom with ChatGPT, de Wynter combined it with NLP Cloud’s multimodal GPT-4V (Vision) to enable the chatbot to participate in the game. The Doom/ChatGPT experiment demonstrated that despite the advancements in GPT-4 and its vision capabilities, the AI model was unable to effectively navigate Doom on its own due to constraints in input and image processing. de Wynter noted that if the model encountered challenges like falling into an acid pool and getting stuck on a wall, it would struggle to remember that it was taking damage from the acid, ultimately leading to its demise. Another challenge that de Wynter had to overcome was the AI model’s tendency to hallucinate and fabricate justifications for its actions, or falsely claim that it had completed a task. Doom’s Space Marine was vulnerable to attacking monsters, leaving him at their mercy. Wynter clarified that GPT-4 was able to reach the final room of the game, but it only achieved this once. De Wynter explained that Doom’s simplicity and open-source nature make it convenient to work with and allow for more accurate benchmarks for measuring intelligent agents. He mentioned that Doom requires strong reasoning abilities, such as on-the-spot planning, which makes it an interesting tool to work with. Originally starting as a meme, people would ask if their toaster could run Doom. Because of its ability to be easily carried and its use of openly shared code. That is predominantly the reason why it remains the preferred game.