{"id":141236,"date":"2022-06-28T03:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/openais-new-ai-learned-to-play-minecraft"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:06:18","slug":"openais-new-ai-learned-to-play-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/openais-new-ai-learned-to-play-minecraft","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s New AI Learned to Play Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openais-new-ai-learned-to-play-minecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never mind the cost of computing, OpenAI said the Upwork contractors alone cost $160,000. Though to be fair, manually labeling the whole data set would\u2019ve run into the millions and taken considerable time to complete. And while the computing power wasn\u2019t negligible, the model was actually quite small. VPT\u2019s hundreds of millions of parameters are orders of magnitude less than GPT-3\u2019s hundreds of billions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the drive to find clever new approaches that use less data and computing is valid. A kid can learn Minecraft basics by watching one or two videos. Today\u2019s AI requires far more to learn even simple skills. Making <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/01\/31\/new-liquid-ai-learns-as-it-experiences-the-world-in-real-time\/\">AI more efficient<\/a> is a big, worthy challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, OpenAI is in a sharing mood this time. The researchers say VPT isn\u2019t without risk\u2014they\u2019ve strictly controlled access to algorithms like GPT-3 and DALL-E partly to limit misuse\u2014but the risk is minimal for now. They\u2019ve open sourced the data, environment, and algorithm and are partnering with MineRL. This year\u2019s contestants are free to use, modify, and fine-tune the latest in Minecraft AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the cost of computing, OpenAI said the Upwork contractors alone cost $160,000. Though to be fair, manually labeling the whole data set would\u2019ve run into the millions and taken considerable time to complete. And while the computing power wasn\u2019t negligible, the model was actually quite small. VPT\u2019s hundreds of millions of parameters are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}