Engineers at Facebook have created a Minecraft assistant to help you with some of the menial tasks involved in the sandbox builder. The helper, which spawns and works alongside you in the game, can be ...

Facebook researchers published a paper in July on training an AI assistant using the wildly popular video game Minecraft. Their "virtual assistant bot" is available for people to download, and will ...

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 ...

Minecraft is a good place to test such things because it's a very (very) approximate representation of the real world, with simple and straightforward rules and physics, but it's also complex and open ...

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 ...

Microsoft is leveraging Minecraft Education Edition for schools, with a new Code Builder tool that wraps coding in with building. Announced alongside Windows 10 S at the company's MicrosoftEDU event ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Minecraft: Education Edition that adds support for Code Builder, along with a number of other new features and improvements. In addition to support for Code ...