Competition Calls for AI-Created Minecraft Settlements

THE Journal: Artificial intelligence has conquered poker, Jeopardy and Go — and now scientists want to see how creative AI can be too. A competition hosted by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is challenging humans to create algorithms for producing adaptive settlements in Minecraft. (These are the villages and cities and other environments that players create at will in the online game.) The competition addresses a fairly new area of inquiry for machine learning in games: how to develop algorithms that can design rather than play.

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