# An AI Learned to Play Minecraft, and It’s Actually Pretty Good

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/an-ai-learned-to-play-minecraft-and-its-actually-pretty-good/
- Published: 2022-06-27T09:15:28-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at gizmodo.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio