Google deepmind is teaching artificial intelligence to play StarCraft 1 & 2

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

Google DeepMind AI Declares Galactic War on StarCraft

DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind

 

[Yama]

I don't know what starcraft is but AI learning to play video games sounds cute as fuck.

 

[Cellmold]

Cool stuff.

I had a bizarre dream recently about this very subject, but in the dream the AI far exceeded what people predicted and went on to dominate and spread to all known online games.
Eventually it found a way to download itself into the code of offline games as well as via connections that are always on even if no browser or online system was engaged. Leaving the realm of video games a purely machine ruled world. But I woke up at the apex.

Still, very interesting stuff.

 

[Fluffywolf]

I'm not impressed until I play a single player game and can have RP conversations with NPC's, while they are moving about living their virtual lives.

The one interesting thing about this is that instead of entirely prescripting and inputting game AI's like done in the past, this (if it becomes good enough) will allow for a relatively easy way to have the game script an infinite variety of fluid AI's for any single game. Instead of having to script every NPC independently. Making the whole gaming experience vs NPC's more interesting from an immersion point of view.

 

[Lark]

Doesnt surprise me, I'd say a point will be reached eventually when AIs could be the majority of players online in games and online discussions.

 

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

This video for StarCraft 1 is cool because it shows the AI using advanced tactics that human players use (ie combating the units from multiple angles to confuse them and make them double back).

AI is one step closer to mastering StarCraft | The Verge

 

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

Elon Musk's AI has already beaten the world champion at Defense of the Ancients 2

Here is the actual match:

 

[Lark]

I think this is interesting too because I've read about some pretty complex and costly to develop game platforms which have been online team or multiplayer games in the final instance, whatever story mode can be played at a local level, and those same games tanked as consumer interest evaporated over a very short term, it would be great if the same platforms could be populated with advanced AI NPCs and therefore survive for the few subscribers who were early uptake buyers.

 

[Maou]

Okay, but if it actually gets good, we are fucked militantly.

 

[Elegiac]

Well I think Google's intentions with Artificial Intelligence was never anything virtuous.

 

[Jaq]

Reminds me of how I read that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R game AI was supposedly had to have been made purposely stupid as the developers claimed that during testing they discovered that the AI could beat the game on its own. STALKER is an older horror/post apocalypse FPS.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Greetings, Professor Falken. How about a nice game of chess?