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 ...

Machines capable of rapidly learning functions and interacting with interfaces humans usually use, like keyboards, are taking over the world. Luckily for us, this particular world is virtual. An AI ...

A group of researchers have built an AI bot that can play the popular Minecraft game all by itself. Unlike other Minecraft agents that use reinforced learning techniques, the bot developed by a motley ...

Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a ...

Microsoft today unveiled Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition, a new tool that will help kids learn how to code by manipulating the blocky open world of Minecraft. Code Builder is a tool in ...

One Minecraft player has created and coded their own in-game bots to do the mining for them, automating the grueling process of breaking blocks. Minecraft's redstone mechanics have allowed players to ...

So this may be what, when Microsoft paid a bazillion dollars for Minecraft last year and everyone said “This could go really, really well or really, really poorly,” would be an example of it going ...

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling has ...