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Minecraft provides the perfect environment for researchers to test the analytic and
interpersonal skills of the artificial intelligence (AI) they create. In the
competition hosted by Microsoft, Queen Mary University of London, and crowdAI, AI
agents are being challenged to complete tasks collaboratively with other
agents. The AI must recognize and carry out a variety of tasks according to the
Minecraft environment they are placed in; objectives include fending off
skeletons, navigating through mazes, and constructing towers.
Although AI
technology is still only in it’s beginning phases, organizers placed emphasis
on adaptable and co-operative AI in hopes of one day seeing the results translate
into human collaboration. ‘Theory of mind’ is the psychological term used to
describe the human ability to read into the intentions of others and respond
accordingly. AI researcher Katja Hofmann at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in
England, explains how implementing human players into the Minecraft environment
is the next step in achieving this property in AI: “Then the algorithms could learn
to collaborate with humans and learn what humans want.”
Read more about this fascinating research at: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/in-the-quest-for-general-intelligence-ais-are-chasing-chickens-in-minecraft
View the challenge at: https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/marlo-2018
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