By akademiotoelektronik, 04/08/2022

Artificial intelligence is invited into the world of Minecraft

The Minecraft brick -based universe is about to become an experimental space for artificial intelligence software designed by startups and scientists.Played by millions of people worldwide, Minecraft is today the property of Microsoft since the buyout of the editor Mojang for 2.5 billion dollars.

And the Redmond firm is determined to explore other uses than video games.As such Microsoft has already acquired in 2016 Minecrafedu, a range of software turned towards learning and education.

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Teach an AI in an open world

Minecraft is now intended for other applications, in the field this time of artificial intelligence.Through the Aix project, Microsoft announced that the Minecraft environment was used by scientists in order to "train" an AI, clearly perform supervised learning.

This test AI is currently developed to be able to learn to do things such as mountain steal in the virtual world - are continuously diving into lava and rivers, so virtual.

"The agent begins by knowing nothing at all about his environment or even what he is supposed to accomplish" explains Microsoft."He needs to understand his environment and understand what is important - climb high - and what is not, whether clear or dark.[...] He needs to understand - via incremental awards - when he has reached all or part of his goal.»»

Aix is presented as the fruit of the frustration of researcher Katja Hoffman, confronted with the limits of other available programs offering only simple games to test IA agents.In comparison, Minecraft is considered sufficiently sophisticated to carry out in -depth and less expensive tests also than the construction of robots for tests in the world.

The main problem with AI, says Katja Hoffman, is today to go beyond tasks to move towards learning thanks to the involvement of several sensors. Cette « intelligence générale»», qui imite la façon dont les humains apprennent et prennent des décisions, est complexe et une tâche beaucoup plus ardue à inculquer à des ordinateurs que de reconnaître des mots, des commandes et stocker de l’information.