Microsoft launched public release at GitHub "Project Malmo" which raises AI (artificial intelligence) at Minecraft

On July 7, 2016, Microsoft created a project aiming to nurture AI by using "Mine Craft", a manufacturing game that brought about the world of the worldProject MalmoWe opened the public to the public. It is possible to teach AI various actions and judgments by incorporating the mechanism of Minecraft that many people have played, and it is possible to download mod and source code from GitHub.

Project Malmo, which lets researchers use Minecraft for AI research, makes public debut - Next at Microsoft
https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/07/07/project-malmo-lets-researchers-use-minecraft-ai-research-makes-public-debut/#sm.00064k2ew15wqfs3stf1g32ynrrlg

You can now help make AI better with 'Minecraft'
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/08/project-malmo-minecraft/

Project Malmo is a project to utilize the world of Maincraft as a field for research of AI, which was released from March 2016 as "Project AIX" to a limited number of researchers. With this release, anyone can freely download and use it.

With the current AI technology, it is possible for AI to learn and make judgments on specific tasks such as playing games in Go or driving a car, but it is not possible to use " Climbing a hill ", the actions that require more inputs (information gathering) and output (judgment / behavior) are not yet good at it. I learned such non-professional behavior,Generic AIIt is to use the world of Minecraft as a field for nurturing.

Project Malmo's system was designed to further refine AI's ability to self-learn to make conversations, make decisions, and complete complex tasks. As this technology evolves, it becomes possible to expand human intelligence (intelligence), and in future it will be necessary to cook and wash objects such as robots, and to rescue the driving and lives of cars It is also possible to instruct it from the operation center and let it run.

He is a researcher at Microsoft's facility in Cambridge, England and leads the development of Project MalmoKatja HofmannHe explains that this system will evolve the approach and approach to strengthen AI learning and in order to make AI learn by repeating the enormous number of trial and error that are necessary for that system As a field of, we are using the world of Minecraft. Hofmann says, "We are aiming to deliver tools to make progress in tremendously difficult problems in research."


People who participate in the project can make their bot inside the field of Minecraft and make the bot act in the maincraft by learning the program by using the language that you use all the time. Although some knowledge and skills are required for programming, according to Microsoft, "It is not necessary to be an advanced programmer." Rather, Microsoft is interested in what action bot by beginner programmers will take.

Project Malmo's mod etc. can be obtained from the following GitHub page.

GitHub - Microsoft / malmo: Project Malmo is a platform for Artificial Intelligence experimentation and research on top of Minecraft. We aim to inspire a new generation of research into challenging new problems presented by this unique environment.
https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo

In addition, a tutorial for actually moving bots is also released.

Malmo Tutorial