Remarkable-Hall-9478 t1_ixyk21k wrote on November 27, 2022 at 11:29 AM

Reply to comment by garry4321 in A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing by Soupjoe5

Why would it need to be rendered? And AI isn’t inherently heavyweight. All of this can be done very simply

garry4321 t1_ixzqgox wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:41 PM

Why would it need to be rendered?

If the goal is that when you come back to the town, they just plop a pre-fab castle in the middle of the town, thats not AI is it? They have to simulate the villagers building in Realtime at all times. With infinite villages available, that means that the game is now simulating dozens to hundreds of AI's building across the map thus having to keep those areas rendered in memory.

Remarkable-Hall-9478 t1_iy116hs wrote on November 27, 2022 at 10:53 PM

Why does it have to be rendered in real time at all times? It literally only ever has to be rendered when it’s on-screen. The ”building” can be low-weight calculations done off-screen that then provide an emergent future state. There is absolutely no reason to be constantly running anything in the background except for the minimal amount of extrapolation based on game state. Even if you did have the AI models running in the background, unless you’re actively training them, drawing results out is simple and very low capacity

garry4321 t1_iy1vzff wrote on November 28, 2022 at 2:49 AM

Ok so not AI. Just prebuilds (like we have now), but when you come to the village, one of the villagers has a block in his hands pretending he’s building it. You walk out of render distance for a second, come back , and there is a castle plopped down and the villager says “I did that”