Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2019

AlphaStar

DeepMind reaches Grandmaster level in StarCraft II.

AlphaStar combined imitation learning with a league of self-play agents. By October 2019 it ranked above 99.8% of active players on Battle.net with human-like action limits.

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

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