Last Week in AI #173: AI learns to do tasks in Minecraft, Instagram AI scans faces for age verification, Amazon launches AI pair programming tool, and more!

OpenAI's Video Pretraining allows AI agent to craft diamond tools in Minecraft, Instagram uses 3rd party AI company to verify age from video selfies, Amazon releases GitHub Copilot competitor

Jun 27, 2022

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Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)

OpenAI announced a recent research project in which they trained an AI agent to play Minecraft. Specifically, the agent is capable of completing a challenging task that no previous AI systems achieved - making diamond tools. OpenAI achieved this by training its AI agent on very large dataset…

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