OpenAI spent $160,000 on Upwork for Minecraft gamers to train a neural net - ZDNet

The point of the work is to find a way to train a general purpose computer "agent" that can use the wealth of the data on the Internet to carry out all kinds of computer tasks.

From the video of VPT pursuing the making of a diamong pickaxe in Minecraft. The computer program achieved the feat in ten minutes, half the time it would take a proficient human player to do it. Ho… [+8876 chars]

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