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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook Research and MIT researchers are using the popular video game 'Minecraft' to build a new AI assistant that can juggle multiple tasks at once. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA ...

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, ...

It looks as if the Facebook and Oculus deal already has its first casualty. Minecraft mastermind Markus "Notch" Persson has said that he'll no longer be developing his game for the Rift after ...

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 ...

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 ...