Jonathan Hunt, Co-Founder & CTO at Elefant AI. Elefant AI—an intelligent companion for Minecraft players. Elefant AI automates tasks like mining, crafting, and building, so you can focus on creativity and strategy. With customizable AI-powered bots, you can enhance your gameplay and explore new possibilities. Transform the way you play Minecraft with Elefant AI.

Episode Highlights:
- Jonathan Hunt shares his journey from neuroscience to DeepMind, where he explored deep reinforcement learning (RL). While RL excelled in gaming, real-world applications like robotics and self-driving cars faced challenges due to costly mistakes and limited training data.
- After DeepMind, Jonathan joined Twitter to work on recommender systems. He found that RL was difficult to implement effectively in this space, leading him to shift focus toward broader AI-driven recommendations.
- Seeing a gap in AI’s ability to generate behavior in 3D spaces, Jonathan co-founded Elefant AI. Their mission is to build AI agents that can navigate and interact across open-world environments without extensive custom engineering.
- Elefant AI’s first major use case is in gaming, where AI companions can enhance gameplay by assisting, strategizing, and even adapting to player styles—bridging the gap between NPCs and real teammates.
- One of the biggest challenges in building 3D AI agents is the lack of structured training data. Elefant AI is developing ways for users to train their AI by providing in-game feedback, allowing the model to learn and improve dynamically.

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