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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
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Learning to Play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT)
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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…
