Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents:
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings (or Arena of Valor, depending on the region). This was a noteworthy achievement — Honor of Kings occupies the video game subgenre known as multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBAs), which are incomplete information games in the sense that players are unaware of the actions other players choose. The endgame, then, isn't merely AI that achieves Honor of Kings superhero performance, but insights that might be used to develop systems capable of solving some of society's toughest challenges.
A paper published this week peels back the layers of Tencent's technique, which the coauthors describe as "highly scalable." They claim its novel strategies enable it to explore the game map "efficiently," with an actor-critic architecture that self-improves over time.
As the researchers point out, real-time strategy games like Honor of Kings require highly complex action control compared with traditional board games and Atari games. Their environments also tend to be more complicated (Honor of Kings has 10^600 possible states and and 10^18,000 possible actions) and the objectives more complex on the whole. Agents must not only learn to plan, attack, and defend but also to control skill combos, induce, and deceive opponents, all while contending with hazards like creeps and fully automated turrets.
[...] The Tencent researchers say that they plan to make both their framework and algorithms open source in the near future, toward the goal of fostering research on complex games like Honor of Kings.
Want to play a game?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 29 2019, @11:10AM (5 children)
1. Chess
2. Global Thermonuclear War
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 29 2019, @01:45PM (4 children)
3. Autonomous driving. After all, in heavy traffic, the best defensive driving must be an aggressive offense, amiright?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by EETech1 on Sunday December 29 2019, @02:06PM (3 children)
Then you want THIS!
https://youtu.be/3x3SqeSdrAE [youtu.be]
https://youtu.be/nTK56vPb8Zo [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 29 2019, @02:20PM (1 child)
Great, so we'll get autonomous time travel, too! :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Sunday December 29 2019, @02:37PM
I don't know if I'd like to be in charge of actually driving a time machine!
Like a steering wheel to alter your course through time?
What would you do with it, and what would it do enroute?
What happens if you take a wrong turn, or miss one?
I'm all for just a dial for the date, and a green button to go!
If there's any latitude or longitude changes that need to be made, let the computer handle it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 29 2019, @08:23PM
A friend had a DeLorean. With a rear engine (and only slightly larger rear tires), it was easy to drift like this. The only reason I didn't practice more (I wasn't as precise as the Stanford car is in the video) was because I didn't want to buy more tires for the car.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday December 29 2019, @02:37PM
"They claim its novel strategies enable it to explore the game map "efficiently," with an actor-critic architecture that self-improves over time....
Agents must not only learn to plan, attack, and defend but also to control skill combos, induce, and deceive opponents, all while contending with hazards like creeps and fully automated turrets."
Sounds like a very nice addition to any speech at a contemporary or near-future high school graduation
You think traffic lights are bad now, wait until they install the fully automated turrets and we become the creeps ourselves in oligarchs live action moba. That is not far off.
https://archive.is/ZinJT [archive.is] (if redistribution of wealth upsets you or you think everyone can solve their problems by 'cleaning their room', trigger warning)