DeepMind’s ‘Starcraft II’ AI Is Now Better Than 99.98% of Human Players
via Motherboard
DeepMind has trained an AI agent that plays StarCraft II at the Grandmaster level—better than 99.98 percent of human players, the machine-learning-focused Google spinoff announced in a new paper
AlphaStar, the AI in question, achieved its Grandmaster status the old fashioned way: grinding through dozens of matches against human opponents, the paper, published on Wednesday in Nature, explains.