Facebook researchers published a paper in July on training an AI assistant using the wildly popular video game Minecraft. Their "virtual assistant bot" is available for people to download, and will ...

The most advanced AIs today can perform select tasks with superhuman-like efficiency, beating the best humans have to offer at intricate games like Starcraft II and Go. But ask those same AIs to ...

A team of Facebook computer scientists is trying to build an advanced new AI assistant, and they're using Minecraft to do it. In research published to the preprint server ArXiv, the researchers write ...

In context: When it comes to the artificial intelligence industry, tech companies leave no stone unturned in their quest for the best way to train various AIs. Many companies will feed their machine ...

Facebook is building an AI virtual assistant in Minecraft, in the hopes that it proves a fruitful training ground for generalist AI. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

While many are scratching their heads over Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of virtual reality company “Oculus Rift,” one developer has some strong words for the company. When Markus “Notch” Persson, ...

When Facebook announced a $2 billion dollar deal to buy virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg promised the new technology would help "change the way we work, play and ...

Well isn’t this a surprise – Facebook Messenger and Minecraft pretty much lead the 2014 iOS App Store charts. The top free iPhone app was Facebook Messenger while the top paid iPhone app was the game ...

The big news on Tuesday was Facebook’s purchase of immersive virtual reality technology company Oculus for $2 billion. This is obviously a big deal, and one that will have a big effect on the gaming ...

When we think of Minecraft, we think of an addictive game that allows us to escape the rigors of everyday life to embark in a simplistic, virtualized world that is both fun and engaging. However, ...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) has cancelled the Oculus VR version of the game, because, as he puts it: “Facebook creeps me out.” His studio, Mojang, had been in talks to bring a version ...