The phenomenon of Mojang Studios has therefore not only attracted many players, but also aroused the curiosity of researchers in artificial intelligence. At the last NeurIPS conference, one of the most important in the field, an environment specially dedicated to the development of AI called “MineDojo” won an award, for example.
Thanks to its new learning technique, OpenAI has seen its artificial intelligence perform tasks involving up to more than 20,000 consecutive actions. A real revolution, according to the team. Beyond Minecraftthe VPT approach might find many other applications, such as allowing an AI to use a keyboard and mouse, to browse the Internet or to place orders online, among others.
Like many other researches still in development, a concrete application is however not regarding to see the light of day, according to certain specialists. Reproducing actions in a video game by simply pressing keys presents a whole different challenge in real life, where the same tasks are much more complex to perform.
Still, the successful use of a wealth of information as rich as YouTube offers a considerable advance for the development of artificial intelligence as a whole. After all, you can’t stop progress.
