Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever – the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox.

Dubbed CraftGPT, there's nothing large about the language model and chatbot Sammyuri built inside Minecraft. Trained on the TinyChat dataset and coded in Python, CraftGPT has just 5,087,280 parameters and a vocabulary of 1,920 tokens spread across six layers, making it decidedly a small language model.

That said, the build itself is anything but small. 

The complete CraftGPT machine – a fully functional computer from the most basic logic gate upward – occupies a massive space of 1,020 x 260 x 1,656 blocks. That's large enough that the Distant Horizons mod had to be installed on the server Sammyuri used to build the system in order to show ...