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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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Original Submission

• bnetd was open, should researchers trust them now? bnetd was open, should researchers trust them now? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @02:55AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @02:55AM (#423371)

  Some of you may remember the bnetd lawsuit. It let you run your own server, because someone reverse engineered the protocol. What better way to run bots vs humans? Researchers could have been doing for the past decade. Will Blizzard have another trantum and DMCA someone for whatever excuse, like running a bot against official servers to try and see if it passess as another human?

• Re:bnetd was open, should researchers trust them n Re:bnetd was open, should researchers trust them n (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday November 07 2016, @03:02AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Monday November 07 2016, @03:02AM (#423376) Journal

  , like running a bot against official servers to try and see if it possesses another human?

  Beg your pardon, but did you mean this? If you did, wouldn't it be more of a daemon than a bot?

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  • Re:bnetd was open, should researchers trust them n (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:23AM (#423382)

    pass could be also:
    To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted.
    To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

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  • Re:bnetd was open, should researchers trust them n (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:33AM (#423385)

    , like running a bot against official servers to try and see if it possesses another human?

    Beg your pardon, but did you mean this? If you did, wouldn't it be more of a daemon than a bot?

    Is this like a comical strawman joke?

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