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AI is gonna play videogames for us too? I don't want this
So the funny thing is... the lead researcher added "finding diamonds" since it's a niche and highly difficult task that involves multi-step processing (have to cut wood, make pickaxe, mine iron, ...) that the AI was not trained on. DeepMind has a good track record with real life usage of their AI... so I think their ultimate goal is to make the AI go from "Minecraft kiddies" to something that can think on the spot to help with treating rare disease or something like that
Y'know they could have used something like Slay the Spire or Balatro... but I digress
"Think"
It will play alongside us, maybe future npcs will seem as real as another player. This is both exciting and terrifying haha but sites like .io games where already using AI to make servers seemed there were more players than what really was there.
I think the problem with all of this is not telling the player. If I know I'm playing with bots it's fine since I can choose but don't deceive me saying they are humans, that should be (or maybe is?) illegal.
Totally worth the environmental offset. It can find diamonds in Minecraft. A gift to humanity.
A gift to humanity.
Only if AI can do it 24/7 for all of us.
Sounds like April fools news. Dreamer is a great name for Minecraft player. What could go wrong?
Welcome to the Google DeepMind Minecraft SMP server : ) (/s)
They've only just achieved this - something that a six year old can do - and yet there are dozens of corporations and startups claiming to already be developing humanoid robots. Yeah I don't think the humanoid robots are going to be here soon. Imagine 300kg of steel with the intelligence of a 6 year old barrelling down the street.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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