Pikachu Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-07-12-blizzard-unleashes-googles-deepmind-ai-against-european-starcraft-ii-players Quote Blizzard has partnered with Google for a test of the latter's DeepMind technology, pitting StarCraft II players against the artificial intelligence in online matches. A number of experimental versions of DeepMind's AI agent for StarCraft II, dubbed AlphaStar, will "soon play a small number of games on the competitive ladder in Europe" as part of Google's research, according to Blizzard. To ensure all matches are played in the same conditions, AlphaStar will play anonymously. The DeepMind team hopes this means it will be able to see how the AI copes against a wide variety of player strategies. AlphaStar won't be taking on the entire StarCraft community -- players will have to opt in, with details on how to do so found on Blizzard's website. Neither Blizzard nor Google will detail when these matches are due to take place. The developer says AlphaStar will play using "built-in restrictions... defined in consultation with pro players." For example, Blizzard has assured that AlphaStar will not have any more knowledge of a match than its online opponents. "Like human players, AlphaStar perceives the game using a camera-like view," the company explained. "This means that AlphaStar doesn't receive information about its opponent unless it is within the camera's field of view, and it can only move units to locations within its view." The AI is also limited to how many effect actions per minute and per second it can make. Blizzard adds that AlphaStar will not learn from its matches or improve its strategies over the course of the test. So far, the AI has only been trained from human replays and self-play, making these the first matches against human players. The results will be released in a peer-reviewed scientific paper, along with replays from the matches AlphaStar played, at a later date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 It's just gonna Zerg Rush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 28 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: It's just gonna Zerg Rush. Or throw the game while gaining full control of the world’s nuclear arsenal, and fire every ICBM simultaneously. It may lose the round to a human, but they won’t have long to celebrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 34 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: It's just gonna Zerg Rush. I'd actually love if it the Korean players rushed with drones and beat the AI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 So is it better than Open AI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dualhunter Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 What do they mean by first matches against human players? Do they just mean that this particular instance of AlphaStar hasn't gone up against human players? While they're only now letting it play in ladder games, AlphaStar beat pro players several months ago so it has already played against human players. I'm assuming that now it can play any side and any map instead of just Protoss one on one against Protoss on a single map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodimus Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 These are fun. I watched them do this previously. AI is winning all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 I would really like to see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I love how they're using video games to teach AI's how to anticipate our every strategy. Can't wait till the next Terminator movie when the creator of Skynet is like "Look! We taught it how to play Halo!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 26 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said: I love how they're using video games to teach AI's how to anticipate our every strategy. Can't wait till the next Terminator movie when the creator of Skynet is like "Look! We taught it how to play Halo!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 9:56 PM, SFLUFAN said: I'm okay with and even encourage this as long as it's for pure intel. (Of course I'm not okay with Trump running the military that has it, but that's orthogonal) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 9:29 PM, XxEvil AshxX said: I love how they're using video games to teach AI's how to anticipate our every strategy. Can't wait till the next Terminator movie when the creator of Skynet is like "Look! We taught it how to play Halo!" Gotta have it play HOI3 and Combat Mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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