AIRIS is a learning AI teaching itself how to play Minecraft

A new learning AI has been left to its own devices within an instance of Minecraft as the artificial intelligence learns how to play the game through doing, says AI development company SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance). The AI, named AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism), is essentially starting from nothing inside Minecraft to learn how to play the game using nothing but the game’s feedback loop to teach it.

AI has been set loose to learn a game before, but often in more linear 2D spaces. With Minecraft, AIRIS can enter a more complex 3D world and slowly start navigating and exploring to see what it can do and, more importantly, whether the AI can understand game design goals without necessarily being told them. How does it react to changes in the environment? Can it figure out different paths to the same place? Can it play the game with anything resembling the creativity that human players employ in Minecraft?