Meet a Minecrafter: Artificial Intelligence

In this first of a two-part series on Minecraft and Artificial Intelligence, Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research) and Will Guss (OpenAI and Carnegie Mellon University) talk about how they are using Minecraft to push the boundaries of AI research, and how lava might one day help a house-cleaning robot know where your carpet is.

Want to try out Project Malmo? Go here to train your first AI agent to navigate a lava maze in Minecraft with Azure Machine Learning: https://aka.ms/azureml-rl (opens in new tab)

And if you want to help build AI (even just by playing Minecraft) check out https://minerl.io (opens in new tab)

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