Facebook is Working on an AI Assistant for Minecraft

Facebook is developing an AI assistant for Minecraft, the popular sandbox game. With this endeavour, the social media behemothic is aiming to bridge the gap in multitasking skills of AI.

Facebook Inquiry team's Minecraft AI will be able to interact with humans and will be able to perform tasks according to the player's asking. This will serve as a platform for the AI to raise its multitasking capabilities past learning from the interactions since the game has about 91 million monthly players.

"The set of things a player could possibly practise in the game is enormous; in the nigh naive sense, it is all possible ways of placing all the possible blocks into as large a globe as fits in RAM," says Arthur Szlam from Facebook Inquiry.

The researchers also acknowledge the risk of poor accuracy of the assistant. "Nosotros believe we can make progress towards a useful assistant without having to exist able to succeed at every possible request," said the researchers.

If all these interests you, there is practiced news. The researchers have already made an early version of the assistant available for anyone to endeavor which you tin check out hither. The steps to brand the assistant up and running are provided in the README.md file of the GitHub repository. To know more about how the banana works, feel gratis to check out the research paper from here.

This assistant has a lot of potential for improving the efficiency of today'due south AI if it manages to grab the attending of Minecraft gamers present worldwide. And so, what do you think of this new Minecraft assistant? Share your thoughts with usa in the comments.