Researchers are transforming chatbots into online agents that play games, query websites, schedule meetings, build bar charts and do more.
A.I. agents perform tasks on their own inside the video game Minecraft.
The widely used chatbot ChatGPT was designed to generate digital text, everything from poetry to term papers to computer programs. Within weeks, they taught it to play Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular video games.
Inside Minecraft’s digital universe, it learned to swim, gather plants, hunt pigs, mine gold and build houses.
“It can go into the Minecraft world and explore by itself and collect materials by itself and get better and better at all kinds of skills,” said Nvidia senior research scientist, Linxi Fan.
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence language model from OpenAI, has been making headlines for its ability to respond to complex questions, write poetry, generate code, and more.
This technology, as researchers improve it, could make office workers and consumers more efficient. It could also change the nature of video games, providing a new wave of bots that gamers can play alongside and chat with.
Today’s agents are limited, and they can’t exactly organize your life. ChatGPT can search the travel site Expedia for flights to New York, but you still have to book the reservation on your own.
“If A.I. can do anything we can do, it does not just replace the boring tasks,” said Dr. Clune. “It replaces all the tasks.”