The world of Minecraft is to be opened up for computer scientists and researchers to run artificial intelligence experiments. The game's owner Microsoft has announced users will be able to try out AI ...

Microsoft is preparing to add “artificial intelligence” — a complete misnomer that everyone continues to use nonetheless — to its video game platforms via the upcoming Copilot for Gaming program. An ...

Why it matters: Minecraft may not sound like an important tool that supports advanced AI research. After all, what could possibly be so important about teaching a machine to play a sandbox game ...