What if everything you had was taken away? In this video, my nation competes in Minecraft’s deadliest civilization experiment ...

Altera.AL, an AI company founded by Robert Yang, a former assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is developing an autonomous agent that can play games based on OpenAI's ...

Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows players to create truly astonishing things, from large structures and cities from both fiction and reality to complicated machines and computers that actually ...

Microsoft has announced that it’s starting to use Minecraft as a space in which to build, test and develop new artificial intelligence systems. The new platform, developed by academics, will be made ...

Microsoft has published the source code for its Project Malmo, allowing anyone to conduct artificial intelligence experiments in the world of Minecraft with a little programming. It unveiled the ...

When I first started playing Minecraft a few months ago, I played with a rule: if I die, I have to delete the entire world. This is the fifth entry in the diary I kept of that experiment - the first ...

What happens when you put 30 Minecraft players in a small, closed map for two months with a limited number of resources? An intriguing experiment earlier this year asked the very same question, and ...