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Thanks for the informative reply! You sound quite knowledgable about this kind of thing so I'll pose a follow-up question(s). What game or broad category of ga

Thanks for the informative reply! You sound quite knowledgable about this kind of thing so I'll pose a follow-up question(s). What game or broad category of game is the least dominated by machines these days? When I first saw the AlphaStar/StarCraft stuff it seemed that there was still plenty of room for humans to be competitive in a general sense, but that was some time ago. It's hard for me to imagine that 10 years from now there will be a game that isn't machine-dominated, but I could be wrong on either side: maybe that's true now, and maybe there's a set of games that still has DeepMind totally stumped!

NhanH 4y ago
Disclaimer first: I'm not a ML practioner, so this might be wrong, though I'm guessing not too blatantly. In a broad stroke, I think all games should and could be dominated by machines nowadays -- though because it is no longer an interesting problem, no one really tried to do it anymore. The last big challenges were dealing with incomplete information game (poker, starcraft) and continuous state space game (starcraft, dota etc.), which was solved ~2-3 years ago. There is still challenges (AI still favor short-term rewards, while human has better long term planning), as well as technicalities (the machines doesn't really play like human: if you can control individual units, certain things like overkill doesn't happen anymore and certain units suddenly becomes overpowered). But those are just obstacles to playing a perfect game, you can still beat human reliably even with those limitation.