A team of researchers from Caltech, Stanford, the University of Texas, and NVIDIA have developed an intelligent software agent named Voyager that excels at playing Minecraft, with the help of GPT-4. The agent learns and remembers techniques and skills that enable it to become proficient at playing the game, achieving milestones 15 times faster than previous software agents. According to the researchers, Voyager has the ability to innovate, using the skills it learned to solve new tasks from scratch, while other models struggled to do so. Minecraft is an open-world game that rewards exploration and requires general skills, which Voyager achieved due to the AI-generated curriculum promoting discovery. The researchers stored the agent’s stored abilities in a skill library while Voyager learned from new tasks, unlocking new levels faster than previous software agents by several times.
NVIDIA is a leading technology company and a world leader in AI computing, investing heavily in autonomous machines, AI and robotics technologies. Nvidia develops processor technologies, software and services that power smart devices and machines that work with humans in positive ways.
Guanzhi Wang, Yuqi Xie, Yunnan Jiang, Ajay Mandlekar, Chaowei Xiao1, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Jim Fan, and Anima Anandkumar are researchers and advisors who collaborated on the Voyager project. These experts specialize in AI, robotics, computer science and machine learning.
