From PC World: Microsoft has decided to open-source a platform used by its researchers to test artificial-intelligence projects.
The AIX platform, which is already being used by Microsoft Research and is available under a private beta to select academic researchers, allows researchers to use the unstructured play in the Minecraft game as a testing ground for their AI research.
AIX will also be made available this summer under an open-source license.
The announcement comes at a time when Google DeepMind is grabbing attention for the Go games being played by its AI program AlphaGo with a key Go player Lee Se-dol. AlphaGo won three straight games of the five-games match in Seoul but on Sunday lost to Lee.
Microsoft is, however, focused with AIX on projects that involve general intelligence, which it says “is more similar to the nuanced and complex way humans learn and make decisions.”
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