An AI Learned to Play Minecraft, and It’s Actually Pretty Good
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Photo credit: Leon Neal / Getty Images. Article by Mack DeGeurin. Gizmodo – June 24, 2022.
Engineers used a combination of labeled and unlabeled video data to teach their model how to swim, hunt, and even pillar jump.
Chess, Go, and now—Minecraft. Artificial intelligence models have added a new victory to their gaming kill list. Using a mix of unlabeled Minecraft videos and a small dataset of ones labeled by contractors, artificial intelligence company OpenAI was able to train a neural network to competently play Minecraft—a milestone for the technology, which had previously struggled to crack the game’s simple but loose gameplay. Open AI engineers revealed their experiment in a research paper and subsequent blog post this week. […]
