Engineers at Facebook have created a Minecraft assistant to help you with some of the menial tasks involved in the sandbox builder. The helper, which spawns and works alongside you in the game, can be ...

Machine intelligence has outperformed humans in a range of tasks, from game playing to face recognition. But the embarrassing truth is that AI systems still cannot cope with multiple tasks. The next ...

‘Oasis’ is a playable, AI-generated version of ‘Minecraft’ that has been trained on millions of hours of game footage, and has created a hallucination-filled nightmare that echoes digital folklore.

Why it matters: Minecraft may not sound like an important tool that supports advanced AI research. After all, what could possibly be so important about teaching a machine to play a sandbox game ...