Microsoft reportedly made a secret Minecraft AI that plays for you

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Minecraft is seemingly the next stage for Microsoft's AI experiments

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Microsoft is reportedly working on an AI system that can let you play Minecraft by simply telling the game what to do.

This tech lets you give Minecraft natural language commands, according to a report from Semafor. So you could tell the game to go build a fort, offer a few examples of the features you want to see, and watch the game go and build it. These commands use natural language interpretation, similar to ChatGPT. This AI model is said to be built in partnership with OpenAI, like the Prometheus model now used in Bing, though there's no direct connection between the two projects.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.