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DeepMind’s new AI masters the online game StarCraft II

Nature News - Thu 31 Oct 19

Nature, Published online: 31 October 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03343-4'AlphaStar' beat human opponents to reach the top 200 players in Europe.

Robots can outwit us on the virtual battlefield, so let's not put them in charge of the real thing

TechXplore - Thu 31 Oct 19

Artificial intelligence developer DeepMind has just announced its latest milestone: a bot called AlphaStar that plays the popular real-time strategy game StarCraft II at Grandmaster level.

Google AI beats experienced human players at real-time strategy game StarCraft II

Nature News - Wed 30 Oct 19

Nature, Published online: 30 October 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03298-6DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game.

DeepMind's AlphaStar AI is now a full-blown StarCraft 2 Grandmaster

SPACE.com - Fri 1 Nov 19

The rise of the machines drew one step closer to reality today, as researchers announced that the Google DeepMind-powered AlphaStar AI has now achieved Grandmaster ranking in StarCraft 2.

DeepMind’s StarCraft II AI Can Now Defeat 99.8 Percent of Human Players

Extremetech - Thu 31 Oct 19

The "AlphaStar" AI beat some of the world's top players in early 2019, and now it's playing online and crushing almost all challengers. DeepMind says AlphaStar ...

British company DeepMind's AI beats pro gamers to achieve 'Grandmaster' status in StarCraft II

Daily Mail - Thu 31 Oct 19

Experts at UK firm DeepMind developed the AlphaStar program, which is a type of AI that scientists dub a 'multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm.'

AI is beating almost all of mankind at Starcraft

ZME Science - Thu 31 Oct 19

Let's teach AI to beat us at strategy war games -- that sounds like a neat idea.

DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI Achieves StarCraft II Grandmaster Leaving Pathetic Humans In Its Wake

HotHardware - Thu 31 Oct 19

Alphabet's DeepMind has been working on its AlphaStar AI for years to get the AI to be able to beat human players at the popular and challenging video game Starcraft II. The game is one of ...

Google’s DeepMind AI Is Capable Of Taking StarCraft 2 Grandmasters On

Ubergizmo - Thu 31 Oct 19

A lot of games come with bots to allow players to play against a computer. This lets players test out new builds or strategies or if they don’t have an internet connection to play with ...

DeepMind AI now keeps up with 'StarCraft II' Grandmasters

Engadget - Thu 31 Oct 19

DeepMind's StarCraft II AI can already hang with human players, but now it's ready to handle the best of the best. The team has revealed that its AlphaStar AI can play one-on-one ...

DeepMind's AI can now crush almost every human player in StarCraft 2 - CNET

CNET Cutting Edge - Wed 30 Oct 19

AlphaStar is practically unstoppable.