This is just one simple example of 100’s of moments where these pro players with 20+ years of experience in this one game, were forced to review their whole strategy and skills as AlphaStar decimated ‘MaNa’.Įven a couple of days after the event, pro players have already adopted some of AlphaStars’ techniques and have become better players because of it.Īrtificial Intelligence is a technology that can open new doors a new way of finding out those unknown-unknown areas and processes of your business.

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You could visibly see some of the commentators go through the 5 stages of grief – especially denial, which was sadistically hilarious to watch. In the first match, they were even bold enough to subtly mock AlphaStar at this ‘non-pro’ play. It shook their world and tested many of their beliefs.įor example, at the start of many of the games, AlphaStar was using a strategy every pro commentator and pro player considered extremely inefficient.

StarCraft is an incredibly complex game, which made it fascinating to see the pro players talk about their experiences vs AlphaStar after the first 5 defeats. Our job here at Filament is to help you the understand the consequences of this groundbreaking event, what it means for businesses and how you might apply this technology. If you’re looking for a summary of what happened and how AlphaStar won I’d recommend Vox’s article here or Deepmind’s personal blog, which goes into fascinating detail about how it trained AlphaStar here. Google Deepminds’ Alphastar won: 10 wins to 1 loss. A number so mind-bogglingly large, I can’t find a metaphor for it. The complexity level of StarCraft II? 10^1685. (This number is larger than there are atoms in the universe!). To put the sheer scale and complexity into perspective, Go, has 10^170 potential decisions and plays you can make. This breakthrough is greater than their last monumental achievement, beating the worlds best Chinese board game player at Go. Google’s latest AI research project: AlphaStar, beat ‘MaNa’: one of the worlds best players at one of the worlds most complex wartime strategy games: StarCraft II.

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