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If AlphaStar is playing at the top of the ladder it probably won't be too hard to figure out that it's AlphaStar. There's only around 15 or so players with MMR
by mikenew 7y ago
If AlphaStar is playing at the top of the ladder it probably won't be too hard to figure out that it's AlphaStar. There's only around 15 or so players with MMR above 6000, and they tend to know who they've been matched up against, even if the opponent hides their name with a barcode (they name themselves "IIIIIIIIIIII" so you can't recognize who it is. And AlphaStar has a pretty distinct play style too.
Unless it's playing more towards the middle of the ladder where there's lots of players I don't think the test would be very anonymous. Regardless, I'm pretty excited to see what happens. Hoping to luck into a game.
- loser777 7y agoYes, this is why I hope there is an account associated with it that can be tracked by the usual sites (rankedftw, sc2unmasked) etc.
- nickpsecurity 7y agoShould be easy to spot based on the demo. Look for the one with way more gatherers than anyone uses, a bunch of disruptors getting amazing micro shots, and groups attacking up ramps in ways human players usually don't.
- herogreen 7y agoI am sure they will find a way to dampen its strength while improving it at the same time. Some ideas: reducing number of neurons, reducing neural network running frequency.
- opportune 7y agoIf they are using monte carlo tree search or some other minimax algorithm the standard way to do this is to limit the depth of the search tree. But not sure how they would use MCTS for starcraft. Could be they are using unsupervised learning to figure out how to represent the search nodes
- jammygit 7y agoMaybe it will stream eventually
- cjbprime 7y agoYup. And anyone who plays against it will have a replay they can share that will make it obvious and provable to anyone expert.