We tend to think in hierarchical terms: tactics, strategy, and the like. It allows us to quickly create imperfect viable solutions. AlphaStar is probably lackin

We tend to think in hierarchical terms: tactics, strategy, and the like. It allows us to quickly create imperfect viable solutions. AlphaStar is probably lacking such distinction and sees the game as a sequence of actions. So it takes a lot more time for it to learn behavior patterns that we call strategy. I think after training for maybe 20 thousand in-game years it will have decent strategy, while still lacking a real "understanding" of what a strategy is. We probably will not see humanlike learning speed and adaptability before development of methods for learning hierarchical representations.