Learning to Imitate | SAIL Blog

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) playing Minecraft and exploring the world to find caves after being trained on only a few videos of human players, using our new approach ( IQ-Learn ). Many approaches have difficulty doing anything in an open-world Minecraft map, but IQ-Learn can navigate the world with ease. A key aspect of human learning is imitation: the capability to mimic and learn behavior from a teacher or an expert. This is an important ability for acquiring new skills, such as walking, biking, or speaking a new language. Although current Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are capable of

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