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MineDojo – Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents with Internet-Scale Knowledge

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67 pointstheblazehen5 comments

"Embodied" seems like a stretch. I would imagine "embodied" to mean something involving feedback control using multimodal sensory data. Otherwise it's no different from playing Atari Pong with a larger state and action space. Moving around in a quasi-3D environment, being essentially represented as a point with a sprite wrapped around it, is not what distinguishes a "bodied" agent from other kinds.

Agreed for the most part.

If we were to be extra generous, then the audio and visuals in minecraft could be a toy case of training an agent with a multimodal sensorium (can the agent avoid enemies sneaking up on them using sound cues, find mobs based on sounds, know lava is nearby by the bubbling etc.).

In this case though the agent is given just RGB pixels and some structured data about their inventory, a small number of nearby voxels, their health etc.

You'd have to be very generous to call structured data like that and some RGB pixels a multi-modal embodied agent though.

I had to keep scrolling down to figure out what this was. People should really do tests to see if a non-technical person can tell them what their website represents in under 10 - 60 seconds, if they can't you need to rework your homepage so the immediate information fed to the end-user tells you what you are "selling" otherwise, you'll typically get people like me who close the tab and leave.

> you'll typically get people like me who close the tab and leave.

You're not the target audience, why should they appeal to you? This is a website accompanying a paper about reinforcement learning.

The audience wont know if they're the audience if they don't know what the website is about. I know there's a whole stereotype about "you silly devs arent the audience" but this is not me being a silly dev, this is the kind of behavior I see from just about anyone. People have short attention spans. Sell your "product" and sell it fast.

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