Why it matters: Minecraft may not sound like an important tool that supports advanced AI research. After all, what could possibly be so important about teaching a machine to play a sandbox game ...

AI researchers have built a Minecraft bot that can explore and expand its capabilities in the game’s open world — but unlike other bots, this one basically wrote ...

Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it. OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video ...

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Engineers at Facebook have created a Minecraft assistant to help you with some of the menial tasks involved in the sandbox builder. The helper, which spawns and works alongside you in the game, can be ...