Microsoft offers more technology into open source – Computerworld Portugal

The AIX artificial intelligence technology is associated with Minecraft gaming platform to validate research

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The Microsoft agreed to make available, open source, a platform used by its researchers to test projects of artificial intelligence, AIX. The technology is now available in private beta, used to select academic researchers and allows you to use the unstructured operation of the Minecraft game, as testing ground for research in artificial intelligence.

The AIX open source will be available during the summer. the announcement comes when Google DeepMind computer has drawn attention to win one of the greatest players of Go , Lee Sedoil, that game of Asian origin.

Microsoft has focused on AIX projects involving general intelligence, he says are “more similar to the differentiated and complex way humans learn and make decisions.” Computers with that technology can perform complicated and specific tasks such as understanding speech and translate it, recognize pictures and write captions on them, explained Allison Linn, Microsoft, in a blog .