A team from Oxford University has won an AI competition by using reinforcement learning to get AI agents to work together in order to catch pigs in Minecraft. The Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge took place inside a special version of Minecraft, called Project Malmo, designed specifically for training machine intelligences. The team's reinforcement learning approach derives from the way animals learn by experimentation. The top teams in the contest, which is intended to promote social intelligence and cooperation between AIs, win a $20,000 research grant and a place on Microsoft's Research AI early days school.
A team from Oxford University has won an AI competition by using reinforcement learning to get AI agents to work together in order to catch pigs in Minecraft. The Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge took place inside a special version of Minecraft, called Project Malmo, designed specifically for training machine intelligences. The team's reinforcement learning approach derives from the way animals learn by experimentation. The top teams in the contest, which is intended to promote social intelligence and cooperation between AIs, win a $20,000 research grant and a place on Microsoft's Research AI summer school.