Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Plays Minecraft

As if Minecraft wasn't already popular enough, it is now being used to help artificial intelligence. Well, at least, a mod of the game by Microsoft is going to. Katja Hofmann and her team of colleagues at Microsoft have created a platform called AIX, which is a mod of Minecraft. The company intends for this system to help artificial intelligence agents have a better understanding of general intelligence. For those of you who are not aware, artificial intelligence is rapidly growing and has improved leaps and bounds of the years.