Minecraft players to be helped by AI assistant

The assistant could carry out some of the more repetitive tasks that playing Minecraft demands

Tired of digging all those blocks in Minecraft? Help could be at hand from an artificial intelligence assistant that can dig and build on command.

Facebook researchers are developing the assistant that players control by typing commands in ordinary language.


The team chose Minecraft because the physics of the game are simple and there are limits on the number of ways its blocks can be manipulated.

An early version of the assistant has already been made available.