AI Cracks Minecraft’s Toughest Challenge Without Help From Humans
04-04-2025 22:12 via eweek.com

AI Cracks Minecraft’s Toughest Challenge Without Help From Humans

The new Dreamer AI system, developed by Google’s DeepMind team, has successfully learned how to mine diamonds in Minecraft — without any direct instruction on how to play the game. Mining diamonds is a challenging, multi-phase task that the AI model mastered through a trial-and-error approach known as reinforcement learning. The developer describes this as a significant-breakthrough toward building AI systems capable of transferring knowledge from one domain to another.Why train an A
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