Several companies have been trying to find out ways in which AI can be integrated successfully in Minecraft.
Minecraft was launched as a sandbox game in the year 2011. Developed and published by Mojang Studios, Minecraft was created using the programming language, Java. The game has been around for more than a decade and in all these years, it has received several important updates and a plethora of fresh content. Because of these factors, the older fans have remained loyal to it and its player base has expanded regularly with the inclusion of new fans.
One of the factors that have contributed greatly to Minecraft’s success is the freedom players get when they play it. The game is known for being highly flexible and gives players the opportunity to explore a vast world. The game offers players the chance to stumble upon raw materials and use them to put together a variety of items and tools. Apart from being available on video game consoles, Minecraft has been ported to smart devices as well. All this speaks volumes about the popularity of the game.
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For a while now, Mojang has been conducting a lot of experiments with AI to figure out how it can be incorporated in the game. The presence of AI, Mojang believes, will do wonders for the game.
There was the much-discussed MineRL Project which was used as a base by researchers to explore ‘reinforcement learning’, a type of machine learning technique in which the AI system learns or grasps a lot of things driven by the rewards or penalties being offered.
Through this technique, AI is taught how one can resolve a variety of complex problems in Minecraft. In the year 2022, OpenAI went about training its own AI bot with the help of 70,000 hours of gameplay footage. The training was given to ensure the AI bot can handle different tasks, such as putting together the diamond tool, in Minecraft in an autonomous manner.
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Some of the recent developments in this space have captured the attention of the gaming community. The Oasis AI model, which has been put together by Decart AI, a California-based AI startup, can be described as a real-time simulation model that offers a unique Minecraft experience driven by AI.
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Several AI-based companies have been conducting experiments to come up with ways to integrate AI in Minecraft in a robust manner. An AI startup, which goes by the name Altera, introduced as many as 1,000 AI agents in the open world of Minecraft. As a part of this experiment, the AI agents were provided with basic text prompts and then, given the freedom to interact with each other openly.
Another interesting AI-driven experiment involved the development team getting a few agents on board to spread a parody religion named Pastafarianism. This parody religion was described as “the word of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”. The experiment produced interesting results with the agents effectively managing to spread this parody religion across a multitude of towns in the in-game world.
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