{"id":87013,"date":"2019-01-24T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at-starcraft-ii"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:42:22","slug":"googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at-starcraft-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at-starcraft-ii","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s DeepMind AI Just Beat Two Pros At StarCraft II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at-starcraft-ii2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman players must explicitly manage an \u2018economy of attention\u2019 to decide where to focus the camera,\u201d said the DeepMind team. \u201cHowever, analysis of AlphaStar\u2019s games suggests that it manages an implicit focus of attention. On average, agents \u2018switched context\u2019 about 30 times per minute,\u201d the team wrote, which was similar to Komincz\u2019s and W\u00fcnsch\u2019s behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the DeepMind team concluded that AlphaStar won against both pros because of \u201csuperior macro and micro-strategic decision-making, rather than superior click-rate, faster reaction times, or the raw interface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at-starcraft-ii-1832034863\">https:\/\/kotaku.com\/googles-deepmind-ai-just-beat-two-pros-at...1832034863<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHuman players must explicitly manage an \u2018economy of attention\u2019 to decide where to focus the camera,\u201d said the DeepMind team. \u201cHowever, analysis of AlphaStar\u2019s games suggests that it manages an implicit focus of attention. On average, agents \u2018switched context\u2019 about 30 times per minute,\u201d the team wrote, which was similar to Komincz\u2019s and W\u00fcnsch\u2019s behaviors. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}