DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch
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Summary
Scientists at London-based AI firm DeepMind have developed a program called Dreamer that taught itself to play the Minecraft video game and collect its most sought-after item, diamonds.
While playing is the point, the AI’s ability to learn how to complete multiple steps to achieve a complex task is the important factor.
The program uses something called reinforcement learning, where experience is incorporated into a model of how the world works.
Scientists want to develop algorithms that can solve tasks across a wide range of problems, not just those they’re trained on.
Minecraft is a popular open world game in which players build terrains and craft various items and tools.
Dreamer explored the game by itself and learned through experimentation to collect diamonds.
