# OpenAI — Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTraining

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2022-06-23T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/vpt
- Record: https://forck.live/items/902-learning-to-play-minecraft-with-video-pretraining
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI trained a neural network to play Minecraft using Video PreTraining (VPT) on a large unlabeled video dataset of human play, with minimal labeled data. After fine-tuning, the model can craft diamond tools, a task that typically takes humans over 20 minutes.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/vpt:

> We trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using only a small amount of labeled contractor data.

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