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Google DeepMind to Take on Starcraft II

posted by martyb on Monday November 07 2016, @01:57AM   
from the Destroy-all-Human-[Player]s! dept.

takyon writes:

Google's DeepMind division will attempt to make an AI that can play Starcraft II in real time without using the same unfair knowledge and capabilities (such as controlling units that are "off-screen") that Blizzard's own AI use. Blizzard and DeepMind are working on a build of the game that will be "open and available to all researchers next year".

Reported at The Washington Post and The Verge .

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• This is it, folks. This is it, folks. (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 07 2016, @04:43PM

  by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday November 07 2016, @04:43PM (#423590)

  They are beginning to weaponize AI under the guise of "gaming."

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• Re:This is it, folks. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @06:05PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @06:05PM (#423649)

  Just don't tell it about the game "global thermonuclear war". At least not before you taught it Tic Tac Toe.

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• Re:This is it, folks. Re:This is it, folks. (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday November 07 2016, @07:13PM

  by butthurt (6141) on Monday November 07 2016, @07:13PM (#423695) Journal

  IBM's Watson was designed to play Jeopardy!; now they're flogging its medical diagnoses.

  /article.pl?sid=14/03/23/0142202 [soylentnews.org]

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  • Re:This is it, folks. (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday November 07 2016, @09:30PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday November 07 2016, @09:30PM (#423764) Journal

    Does that mean if you get a diagnosis by Watson, you are jeopardized?

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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