By Darren Allan
Microsoft has revealed Project AIX, an open source platform designed to test out and help hone artificial intelligence (AI) using Minecraft. It’s currently in closed beta but should be made broadly available this summer.
When Microsoft bought up Mojang, you probably wondered what Redmond was going to do with Minecraft – and you probably didn’t guess that one usage of the popular sandbox game would be to train artificial intelligence routines.
The idea is based around the fact that playing Minecraft is a learning process, and just as a human has to become familiar with the nuances of the game when they sit down in front of it and play (without reading the manual – as come on, who does that?), so an AI can learn from Mojang’s block-building epic.
As Microsoft observes in a blog post, the artificial intelligence starts off knowing nothing about its in-game environment or goals, and has to stumble about working things out. The AI has to learn about climbing hills, avoiding lava, the importance of light and dark, and eventually understand rewards and goals, all using the same type of methods and resources a human would.
In other words, this isn’t about …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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