It was never meant to train on Starcraft to dominate Solitaire or Mario, or to figure out a more efficient way to do laundry. There's no money in that. The part

It was never meant to train on Starcraft to dominate Solitaire or Mario, or to figure out a more efficient way to do laundry. There's no money in that. The particular interest in Starcraft (an iconic wargame) is meant to lend itself to the military applications of logistics and troop placement. At some point AI will be sufficiently advanced to understand what a grunt on a map looks like in any context, so we'll be able to swap out the Space Marines with real ones. Whoever can autonomously dominate a battery of RTSes has the potential to autonomously conduct conventional warfare.