MineDojo is Out. Here is What You Need To Know.

Creating a generally capable, human-like AI is a massive challenge. MineDojo is here to help.

What is MineDojo?

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MineDojo is a training environment for creating generally capable AI agents using a MineCraft game environment. MineDojo is created by NVIDIA and is open for everyone to develop generally capable AI agents.

Why MineCraft?

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Training an AI is a highly data intensive task. That is exactly why game environments provide almost the perfect environment for training AI models. Game environments provide a well defined simulation environments for the AI to train, what’s more is that they can get really realistic and the AI can play the game by itself thousands of times within a day, depending on the game.

Just having a game, does not make it perfect though. In this case for example, there are thousands of actions a user can perform within MineCraft. At this point you may wonder, how would you teach an AI what…