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Announcing the EX1A-AL

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TitanEX1
Profile Joined June 2019
14 Posts
June 27 2020 23:41 GMT
#1


TitanEX1 in co-operation with SC2AI (StarCraft2AI / sc2ai.net ) is proud to announce the inaugural EX1A-AL, an Author-AI league.

The EX1A-AL 2020 Season 1 will be held online from 1st - 31st July, run by TitanEX1 Co., Ltd. an AI company based in Seoul, South Korea.

"Machines will get better and better because humans are poised to make mistakes, in a closed system.”
“We should recognize that humans are still more flexible; find where we can play a valuable role ." - Garry Kasparov


We are introducing a new angle to how AI is meant to be played, that is with the human aspect. Too often we see bots are rigid and only react programmatically. While in reality, systems are thrown into an environment that requires adaptability and at times required to perform in a non-linear manner.

TitanEX1's main involvement would be the *EX1A-AL tournament in which we will run the league and sponsor prizes for winning combination of human-machine bots. These bot matches can be played in real-time, so that we can introduce human touches in defining the outcome of individual matches. The league is run on a monthly basis, two rounds of entry submissions are needed, one for the round-robin group stage and the semi's. Maps are also limited to encourage participation of machine learning bots. As such unless vetoed, the playable maps for every season are selected to mirror the tried, and tested human-capable versions.

Official stream at [image loading] http://afreecatv.com/titanex1

For EX1A-AL news, notifications, VODs, etc., feel free to follow us @
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TitanEX1
YouTube - http://titanex1.com/youtube
SC2AI Discord server - http://titanex1.com/sc2ai

*EX1A-AL Season 1
EX1A-AL format
jeputera
Profile Joined June 2018
30 Posts
June 27 2020 23:47 GMT
#2
This sounds amazing.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-28 00:35:02
June 28 2020 00:34 GMT
#3
Interesting. Do current bots play nicely with having a human player archoned with them, or would they end up clueless if the human produces a unit that the bot. didn't plan to build? e.g If a bot is made to mass reaper every game and the human starts producing other stuff, the bot. probably hasn't been programmed to micro anything other than reapers.
keaneu
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)65 Posts
June 28 2020 06:26 GMT
#4
It remains to be seen how well a bot can be programmed to work together with human player. Stay tuned!
Director, TitanEX1 Co., Ltd.
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
June 28 2020 06:40 GMT
#5
We can turn Starcraft into like, an Auto Battler like this!
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
June 28 2020 08:14 GMT
#6
On June 28 2020 09:34 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Interesting. Do current bots play nicely with having a human player archoned with them, or would they end up clueless if the human produces a unit that the bot. didn't plan to build? e.g If a bot is made to mass reaper every game and the human starts producing other stuff, the bot. probably hasn't been programmed to micro anything other than reapers.

I could imagine a bot, that leaves the important decision to the human and helps with Micro, Bildung workers, mules/chrono/injects, and so on.
So the Player is in charge of unit produktion and is just a-moving and the bot does the rest
MaxPax
keaneu
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)65 Posts
July 24 2020 06:53 GMT
#7
We created a separate strategy discussion for this purpose (starts tomorrow):

https://tl.net/forum/sc2-strategy/561703-ex1a-al-centaur-meta-discussion

Director, TitanEX1 Co., Ltd.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10784 Posts
July 24 2020 07:53 GMT
#8
This is really amazing, AI has come such a long way since when it first began!
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
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