New breed of AI is tested in Minecraft

Mazes have been used for a long time in research, particularly in testing memory. Historically, the subjects involved in these tests have mostly been mice and rats, but now a completely new kind of intelligence is getting put through its paces. A group of US researchers is testing artificial intelligence machines using mazes in Minecraft to see which kinds of systems are best at solving them. One example of a simple task was to find the red cube in a maze. Junhyuk Oh and his team created a set of mazes and set their AI algorithms increasingly complex tasks to complete within the mazes.