Minecraft is teaching robots
If you are a teenager who is at least a little familiar with computer games, you quite probably know Minecraft. It is a very basic and rather ugly simulator of the real world. While the laws of physics that are simulated are quite interesting and not so simple, the graphics are based on huge and ugly cubes.
However, this ugly game is now being used by Microsoft to reach an amazing goal: test how a robot with Artificial Intelligence learn from it self-experience. Basically, they prepare a program designed to learn how to interact with the environment and they can freely test it in any environment they want. They just have to put a new character commanded by this program in a scenario they can previously construct and prepare.
Even though Minecraft is way too simple compared to the real life, the self-learning tactics and rules may be used someday in the real world by real robots.
Based on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288
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Minecraft Is Teaching Robots
If you are a teenager who is at least a little familiar {or: who is even a little familiar} with computer games, you quite probably know Minecraft. It is a very basic and rather ugly simulator of the real world. While the laws of physics that are simulated are quite interesting and not so simple, the graphics are based on huge and ugly cubes.However, this ugly game is now being used by Microsoft to reach an amazing goal: (to)* test how a robot with Artificial Intelligence learns from it self-experience. {or "learns from its own experience"} Basically, they prepare a program designed to learn how to it interacts with the environment** and they can freely test it in any environment they want. They just have to put a new character commanded by this program in a scenario they can have previously constructed and prepared.
Even though Minecraft is way too simple compared to the real life, the self-learning tactics {better: techniques} and rules may be used someday in the real world by real robots.
Based on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288
*It sounds better to me if "to" were added here.
**The way I read the article, it was a program not *to* interact with the environment, but a program to capture *how* it interacts with it.
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