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Joscha Bach: Simulated Minecraft water fails to make player character wet

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Joscha Bach recounts an experiment where a neural network trained solely on Minecraft visuals demonstrated that simulated water could not make a player character wet. The AI, lacking game code, caused the water to recede when the character approached, illustrating a limitation in its learned understanding of physical interactions. This observation highlights the difference between simulated environments and real-world physics. AI

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Joscha Bach: Simulated Minecraft water fails to make player character wet

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    Simulated Water Can't Make You Wet (Joscha Bach)

    Joscha Bach on a joke that turned out to be true. In Minecraft, if you're on fire and jump into water, the fire goes out because you're wet. Someone then trained a neural network on nothing but Minecraft's visuals, so you could play a simulated Minecraft with no game code underne…

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