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TL;DR: they arrive at a bot that can chop wood; a user-supplied script crafts a pickaxe. No actual RL agent that finds diamonds here.

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I suppose this title is the definition of clickbait then?

The topic of deploying RL agents in games itself is interesting, with pretty mature tooling for interacting with environments.

However the author switches to imitation learning instead of blank-slate RL to accomplish a fraction of what the title promises. I was disappointed.

It could be an example of clickbait, not the definition.

The expression "X is the definition of Y" is now being used metaphorically to mean "X is extremely Y" - just like the word "literally" started to have a second meaning that is basically the opposite of the original one.

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