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by successful23 444 days ago
Pretty impressive. Minecraft’s a complex environment, so for an AI to figure out how to find diamonds on its own shows real progress in learning through exploration — not just pattern recognition.
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You can literally find diamonds by moving the mouse down and holding left click.
No you can't. Blocks broken without the correct tools do not yield items. In order to find diamonds the agent must first craft an iron pickaxe, which itself requires several other steps.
Finding diamonds is different than acquiring diamonds.
If you actually read the paper, DeepMind's program ("Dreamer") is indeed acquiring diamonds.