OpenAI Releases Minecraft-Playing AI VPT

Researchers from OpenAI have open-sourced Video PreTraining (VPT), a semi-supervised learning technique for training game-playing agents. In a zero-shot setting, VPT performs tasks that agents cannot learn via reinforcement learning (RL) alone, and with fine-tuning is the first AI to craft a diamond pickaxe in Minecraft.

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