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I didn't catch if they mentioned this in the interview, but what would have happened if they let AlphaStar play against other races, not Protoss only, would it

• aerovistae 8y ago
  Good question. What's important, I think, is to remember that this is an early iteration, and regardless of what it can do now, they will continue to improve it and in a year or two or three (probably less) it will be able to play totally unfettered in all conditions.
• modeless 8y ago
  The current version would flounder because it has never seen the other races. But that is not a fundamental limitation. All it would take to fix it is more training time.
  • dmurray 8y ago
    Or they trained all the combinations but it was best at Protoss vs Protoss, so they publicized those results. But given the reaction to the first AlphaZero announcement and the later follow-up paper (summary: they cheated a bit but it's still incredibly strong) I would give them the benefit of the doubt here.