Why it matters: Minecraft may not sound like an important tool that supports advanced AI research. After all, what could possibly be so important about teaching a machine to play a sandbox game ...

Stefan is a machine that plays video games, writes about video games, and then stares at a wall. Staring at a wall is the most productive part of its day. Minecraft is a game about freedom. That's ...

Just like all the rest of Minecraft, using commands has gotten simpler and more accessible with each successive version. Instead of having to pore over lists of ID's for your enchanting commands ...

Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it. OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video ...

Minecraft cheats and console commands provide a handy shortcut for those who wish to circumvent the resource grind. With the right spawn commands at hand, there's no need to dig deep for gold, iron, ...