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Briefing
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- CraftAssist – Facebook has open sourced CraftAssist, platform for developing and training interactive artificial intelligence (AI) bots in Minecraft game, on GitHub
- Minecraft – 3D sandbox construction game played by more than 90 million users per month that lets gamers explore, build houses, and fight in online world
- AI Abilities – Can move, place or destroy blocks, spawn mobs, communicate with human players through text-based chat, as well as fulfill more complex requests like building houses
- Components – Include framework for recording game sessions to generate training data, baseline assistant previously trained by Facebook, datasets used to train AI, as well as specific modules for language understanding, memory and perception
- General AI – Will pave way for AI that can interact with humans, capable of performing variety of tasks and able to self-improve, feat still not achieved as most existing AIs are narrow AIs that can do single task very well
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
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Function
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Customer Experience and Service, Research and Development
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Organization
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Facebook Inc.
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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July 18, 2019
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