Machines capable of rapidly learning functions and interacting with interfaces humans usually use, like keyboards, are taking over the world. Luckily for us, this particular world is virtual. An AI ...

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 today unveiled Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition, a new tool that will help kids learn how to code by manipulating the blocky open world of Minecraft. Code Builder is a tool in ...

A group of researchers have built an AI bot that can play the popular Minecraft game all by itself. Unlike other Minecraft agents that use reinforced learning techniques, the bot developed by a motley ...

The popular block-building-sandbox game is creeping into the third annual Hour of Code, a worldwide campaign to spark students' interest in programming. CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

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 ...