chess/go are very different games to starcraft in terms of incomplete information, realtime nature, and micro/macro strategy. It looked very similar to the firs

chess/go are very different games to starcraft in terms of incomplete information, realtime nature, and micro/macro strategy. It looked very similar to the first version of OpenAI's Dota 2 bot. Their first iteration only played 1 v 1 and did so very well. The next year they expanded it to 5 v 5 and it still did very well (even though it lost to the pro teams, it beat the semi-pro caster teams). I think skepticism is a fair reaction, but perhaps not a fair first reaction. I (personally) am optimistic about the role of AI in the future. My first reaction to the bot given its need to develop macro/micro understanding and react to incomplete information was "wow!" even if the follow up reaction was "well, its mostly god-mode micro". Props to AlphaStar and the team that developed it.