Who Is This Super Intelligent Monkey Who Completed The Minecraft Video Game? – Evening edition West-France

In the United States, a 43-year-old monkey in captivity managed to complete the video game Minecraft. His feat, which took six months of training, was documented in two videos posted on YouTube.

Monkeys are also capable of playing video games. In the United States, Kanji, a 43-year-old bonobo monkey born in captivity, achieved a feat in early 2024: after six months of training, this primate managed to defeat the Ender Dragon, which is considered the last “boss”. The famous video game Minecraft.

Kanzi’s prowess, which even has its own Wikipedia page, has been cited by the media KonbiniDocumented in two videos published on the YouTube channel of American ChrisDaCow, in partnership with the Ape Initiative, a research center dedicated to the study and conservation of bonobo monkeys.

He moves around, smashes cubes and eats crystals

“In the first video published in July (2023)Thus we find the primate who begins to familiarize himself with the cubic game (Minecraft) »reports Konbini. Apparently, learning to play Minecraft is not innate in primates. So to encourage Kanji to play and progress, the YouTuber and his team feed him whenever he does well in the game.

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In the video, the monkey is seen touching the game screen several times. This way of doing things allows him to move, break cubes, eat crystals to heal himself… in short, so many actions that the average player would perform using a game controller or keyboard and mouse. “Researcher Jared Tagliatella, who was with the experiment, explained that Kanzi sees the game as a way to socialize and people like to see it in action”The site explains Lemon Press.

A pause and many attempts

Obviously, Kanzi doesn’t succeed the first time. “Guided by a YouTuber, this unusual player must have failed many times, to the point of pausing before managing to finish the game”Report to our colleagues from 20 minutes. But after six months of training and several deaths in the game, thanks to very precise crossbow shots, Kanji manages to defeat the final boss.

And “Far from being formal”The television channel BFMTV comments, this performance is reminiscent of “Peanut Butter”, a dog that completed, Tuesday January 16, 2024, a part of the video game JeromeiteReleased in 1985 on the NES console.