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Google DeepMind is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment, the producers of the hugely popular StarCraft game, to set the real-time strategy game as the next challenge in AI. The announcement was made during BlizzCon, a video games convention held by Blizzard Entertainment today, and comes right after researchers from Facebook …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    "The Starcraft DQN-powered AI bots will play directly from pixels; the team has created an image-based interface that allows the bot to make sense of its surroundings on the game map. The details of the game, such as unit type or unit health, will be monitored through separate “layers.” Below is a video showing off what players and bots can see."

    And there we go, that is what will make this excellent. And boom go Elazer smashing Showtime! However the good money is on TY

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  2. Triggerfish

    At what point

    do they start trading as cyberdyne systems?

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  3. Crazy Operations Guy
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    An AI playing StarCraft II

    Well, at least then -someone- would be playing it.

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    1. pop_corn
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      Re: An AI playing StarCraft II

      As I understand it, Starcraft is a very popular game in the Asian pro gamer competition circuit. Indeed it appears there's an annual $1/2M prize purse for the StarCraft II World Championship Series winner:

      http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/about

      According to this page, there's been over $4M of prize money handed out in South Korea for Starcraft II and Starcraft leagues have been televised on 2 different channels. It's even had its own match fixing scandal with 11 players banned for life and convictions with prison sentences (suspended) for several!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_StarCraft_competition

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  4. RIBrsiq
    Terminator

    I don't think APM will cut it anymore. APS will very soon be needed, maybe even APμS.

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  5. razorfishsl

    and the first thing they do is start training AI to wage war?

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Wouldn't you prefer...

    ... a nice game of chess?

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