The latest artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI has learned to play Minecraftthe already mythical title of Mojang construction, After watching more than 70,000 hours of videos on YouTube. As reported since Eurogamerthis company specializing in artificial intelligence has developed a video pretraining algorithm (VPT for short) that allows its new AI to learn through viewing.
Interestingly, as we can read in the official blog of the company, the AI of OpenAI it plays in the same environment as humans, so it uses the equivalent of mouse and keyboard actions, which is a big step forward in this field. In the beginning, the AI learned to perform basic actions in the game like cut down trees, craftear planks and build craft tables, as well as swim, hunt, run, or cook, among other. Thanks to the implementation of a few small adjustments, the AI was able to learn how to build a diamond pickaxe.
How did OpenAI get the AI to learn to play?
It should be noted that the images of a gameplay -which shows only what can be done, but not how to do it- are not enough for the AI to learn how to function in the video game. It is because of that its developers recorded and labeled the basic mechanics of Minecraft to create another algorithm that would accurately annotate the 70,000 hours of YouTube videos with prompts for mouse and keyboard controls. In this way, the AI learned by observing human actions and, although the team has only tested it with Minecraft, it is believed that it could be able to function in other games and could even be useful for general computer use.
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