Microsoft has revealed that computer scientists in its research labs are now using Minecraft as a teaching tool for artificial intelligence, using the recently-announced Project AIX platform.
Clearly not content with 100 million registered players on PC alone, the platform puts an emphasis not on programming AI to perform tasks, but programming it to learn to perform tasks organically. In a Microsoft blog post about the project, the example given was that of an AI player learning to climb to the highest point on a Minecraft map in the same way an inexperienced human player would - by reading the world around it and finding out where it can and can't travel. Also, by dying in lava repeatedly.
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Clearly not content with 100 million registered players on PC alone, the platform puts an emphasis not on programming AI to perform tasks, but programming it to learn to perform tasks organically. In a Microsoft blog post about the project, the example given was that of an AI player learning to climb to the highest point on a Minecraft map in the same way an inexperienced human player would - by reading the world around it and finding out where it can and can't travel. Also, by dying in lava repeatedly.
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