Project aix

Project AIX: Innovative way to make AI more intelligent using Minecraft…

Tech-Giant folks are innovating AI more rapidly than ever. New York based scientists of Microsoft are among the latest examples of it. Microsoft research team is currently working on “Project AIX” which can be a significant try to make AI even more intelligent than ever before.

• WHAT IS THIS “PROJECT AIX”?
This “Project AIX” is teaching Minecraft characters to learn everything from nothing. Starting from Zero, Microsoft wants to make these characters learn the things around them and to perform a task by themselves when needed by their own.

• SCIENTISTS WORKING ON THIS “PROJECT AIX”.
The computer scientists working on this “Project AIX” are Katja Hofmann, David Bignell, Fernando Diaz, Alekh Agarwal, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Evelyn Viegas, Matthew Johnson, Tim Hutton

• WHAT EXACTLY IS IN THIS “PROJECT AIX”?
Microsoft is using Minecraft characters to be more like humans. Firstly, the characters don’t know anything about itself, about its surrounding and about doing tasks. From there on Microsoft want these characters to to learn by themselves went themselves, environment around themselves and also about learning decision making for doing any task. More specifically, Microsoft want a character to learn all these things in order to climb a hill in the virtual world. While in order to climb the hill, the character might fall in to a river of a volcano pit. But after all these things they should be capable enough to make decisions by understanding the surrounding as to whether climbing the hill will be beneficial for now, or is it night/day, and the other behavioural things by itself just like the humans do.

• WHO’S IDEA IS THIS “PROJECT AIX”?
Katja Hofmann and her colleague friends from Microsoft Cambridge UK lab started this project enabling scientists from within the company to work in the bets state on this project in order to make AI more intelligent

• WHEN IS THE MICROSOFT MAKING THIS “PROJECT AIX” PUBLIC?
This project will be made public in this year’s summer.

• WHY DID MICROSOFT ONLY CHOOSE MINECRAFT FOR THIS PROJECT?
~ Minecraft is addictive enough to make millions of people use the virtual world on the daily basis.
~ Minecraft facilitates to program the actions of every individual character like walking.
~ Minecraft can also enable to perform complex actions like building a building by the group of characters.

• CHALLENGES FACED DURING THIS PROJECT…
~ This project mainly focuses on making AI learn performing general intelligence like human beings
~ Make AI do things by themselves like thinking, decision making, more like the humans do
~ Testing AI on the things that humans use normally like search engines.

• MICROSOFT’S VISION THROUGH THIS “PROJECT AIX”…
~ AIX platform should be available and easily usable by the amateurs all around the world to make AI more intelligent 
~ Researchers should be able to run their program on OS’s like Windows, Mac OS or Linux

Indeed, this project can be a revolutionary step for the Microsoft to extend the limitations of the AI further beyond and to make this system beneficial for we human beings. We are very excited to know further developments on this project. Lets hope for the best from Microsoft.