An OpenAI Minecraft AI project struggled around 2020, a participant recalls
A participant says the project tried reinforcement learning from scratch and was their only OpenAI project that did not involve a large language model.
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A participant recalls trying to make reinforcement learning from scratch work in Minecraft at OpenAI around 2020, saying it “never really worked that well.” In their September 6, 2026 reflection, they contrasted that experience with the claim: “Now it is just one prompt away.”
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