As reported by Nature, a new AI competition will be occurring soon, the MineRL competition, which will encourage AI engineers and coders to create programs capable of learning through observation and example. The test case for these AI systems will be the highly popular crafting and survival video game Minecraft. Artificial intelligence systems are have seen some recent impressive accomplishments when it comes to video games. Just recently an AI beat out the best human players in the world at the strategy game StarCraft II. However, StarCraft II has definable goals that are easier to break down into coherent steps that an AI can use to train.

At present, the training approach adopted for AI is reinforcement learning. Robotic arms in factories are trained by this method.