Microsoft has reportedly produced a AI-driven demo of Minecraft that lets the user control the game by telling it what to do, rather than building everything themselves.
According to a report from Semafor, this demo lets players use AI to tell the game what to build, rather than the traditional gameplay format of moving their character around and building and digging themselves. The demo apparently uses cutting-edge AI, though not Prometheus, the tech that’s used in the recently revealed Bing chat service that is developed with OpenAI.
Scoop: Microsoft has an internal Minecraft demo where, instead of manually mining/building, etc., you can describe your vision to an AI (like a ChatGPT prompt) and watch your creation come to life. More details here. https://t.co/WHLKS9DGNQ
— Reed Albergotti (@ReedAlbergotti) February 17, 2023
The report notes that applying natural language commands to Minecraft is quite a difficult task, in particular because there are so many ways you could build any particular object. An AI might not build something like a car in the exact same way a person might, or it could use methods no one had thought of before.