Microsoft Is Experimenting With AI That Plays Minecraft For You
Microsoft is experimenting with AI in Minecraft to let players tell the game what to do, Semafor reports(Opens in a new window).
In an internal demo of the AI, players were able to tell the game to build something like a fort or castle, describe how they wanted it to look, and watch as the game followed their instructions.
According to Semafor, there are no immediate plans to roll the AI tech out in public versions of Minecraft. PCMag reached Microsoft for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
The AI, which uses natural language interpretation, similar to ChatGPT, was reportedly made in partnership with OpenAI which Microsoft has been heavily investing in. In January, the tech giant said it was making a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment” in the AI company that reportedly amounted to as much as $10 billion.
It’s not the first time that AI has been used to play Minecraft. Last year, OpenAI put out a research paper(Opens in a new window) that revealed how it had trained a computer model to play the hugely popular sandbox game by making it watch 70,000 hours of videos of people playing it. Through this, the trained AI model was able to construct wooden tools and crafting tables.
Earlier this month,Microsoft released its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine which is capable of coming up with conversational responses to search queries, thanks to its Prometheus model. As Semafor reports, the Minecraft AI model was not connected to or made in development with Prometheus.
Microsoft is reportedly also set to roll out new AI tech, similar to ChatGPT, across Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook in March. According to The Verge’s Tom Warren(Opens in a new window), the company is “tentatively” gearing up to show how
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