The last I saw of deepmind, it was randomly clicking on the minimap and unable to get back to its base to control its workers unless it got lucky. Surely it's gotten a lot better if they brought on Rotti and Tosis...right?

travis

United States23395 Posts

January 22 2019 17:21 GMT

What they have done is isolate "mini games" from within sc2 - tasks like mineral mining or base organization. So it may be the case that they are now performing well on such minigames and want to show that off and talk about how they've done it.

Xamo

Spain467 Posts

January 22 2019 17:47 GMT

This is very interesting, I am hyped!

Charoisaur

Germany12441 Posts

January 22 2019 18:22 GMT

Probably Deepmind vs Serral showmatch

paralleluniverse

3952 Posts

January 22 2019 18:55 GMT

I don't expect its ability to be more than a high diamond player, or at best a high masters player.

And I'd bet it will use Terran, because its skill with the other 2 races is bad.

Nakajin

Canada4189 Posts

January 22 2019 18:58 GMT

Deepmind usually don't go out on matches they think they can lose. I'm guessing it's gonna be more of an exhibition demonstrating the mouse and keybord setup they will have and how it learned SC, maybe a couple of matches vs the game CPU or a low level opponent. When we will heard of them playing against the top pro it will mean it can beat them

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq13612 Posts

January 22 2019 20:14 GMT

#10

I hope the deepmind team is more open about what they produce. Show-matches are all very well, but giving players the opportunity to out-mindgame the AI afterwards would be interesting. AlphaZero was somewhat disappointing in the sense that no one really has a good sense of exactly how good it is at Shogi or Chess.

Dave4

203 Posts

January 22 2019 20:22 GMT

#11

I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords.

stardog

530 Posts

January 22 2019 20:23 GMT

#12

If Deepmind is ready to demonstrate, I'd expect them to have something good. When they approached Go, they started with beating other bots (which played on a pretty strong amateur level), then a weak pro and finally the very best players. I'm not aware of any half-decent bots to beat so I hope they'll at least show a master level of play.

shabby

Norway6367 Posts

January 22 2019 20:24 GMT

#13

Has it now learned all the rules and cloned itself and played a hundred million matches? Otherwise, probably just a technical demo?

Ziggy

Poland1235 Posts

January 22 2019 20:34 GMT

#14

wcs circuit + kr cancelled, to be replaced by wcs skynet

humans get region locked out, only AI competitors

BaneRiders

Sweden3391 Posts

January 22 2019 20:45 GMT

#15

What was it the terminator said? "The more contact I have with humans, the more I löörn"

Tayewo

Germany21 Posts

January 22 2019 21:04 GMT

#16

nice stuff...and good the sc2 brand, that the game is a reference. Maybe sc2 get some nice little headlines

scotch4789

United States41 Posts

January 22 2019 21:11 GMT

#17

On January 23 2019 05:22 Dave4 wrote:
I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords.

Hahaha! a most excellent post!

srj

Canada71 Posts

January 22 2019 21:13 GMT

#18

Intriguing. I'm hoping it's a full game. Half of Starcraft is mechanics, and it's a given that an AI would be superior at this. I'm hoping instead the AI can show creative strategies as well.

Ronski

Finland194 Posts

January 22 2019 21:17 GMT

#19

On January 23 2019 05:14 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
I hope the deepmind team is more open about what they produce. Show-matches are all very well, but giving players the opportunity to out-mindgame the AI afterwards would be interesting. AlphaZero was somewhat disappointing in the sense that no one really has a good sense of exactly how good it is at Shogi or Chess.

Didn't they make it pretty clear that its the best chess engine there is atm? Beating the strongest engine at chess means that no human player could ever hope to beat it so at least when it comes to chess I would say its clear that AlphaZero is the best there is.