A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it.

Unlike other Minecraft agents that use reinforced learning techniques, the bot developed by a motley team from Caltech, UT Austin, and NVIDIA, uses GPT-4 language model.

Luckily for us, this particular world is virtual. An AI developed by a Microsoft-backed organization has learned how to play "Minecraft" after spending some time studying videos on YouTube.

Voyager is an autonomous AI entity that can play Minecraft, and it uses knowledge stored in GPT-4 to do it.

Voyager AI does not play Minecraft like a human. Instead, it uses GPT-4 to learn about its surroundings. GPT-4 is the large language model that powers ChatGPT.

The platform consists of a mod for the Java Minecraft version as well as advanced code to assist AI in working with the Minecraft environment.