Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game

A developer and enthusiast Minecrafter has showcased a project dubbed CraftGPT on GitHub. In an amazing feat of Minecraft Redstone engineering, Sammyuri — famed for building a 1Hz CPU inside the game — has built a small language model that runs on a computer inside Minecraft, trained on the TinyChat dataset. The CraftGPT project is hewn from 1,020 x 260 x 1,656 blocks in the game (439 million in total), and functions as advertised, but a major usability drawback is that you will have to “wait a…