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AlphaStar hardly pawned GMs in any meaningful way. It mainly won on mechanics, even when Deepmind tried to nerf its mechanics. Probably the most important thing
by sakras 3y ago
AlphaStar hardly pawned GMs in any meaningful way. It mainly won on mechanics, even when Deepmind tried to nerf its mechanics. Probably the most important thing is that the “200 APM limit” is way higher than any human can do, because it made use of each one of its actions. Humans can reach 400+ APM by spamming, but their EPM will stay much lower than 200. The result is that it had god-tier micro that changed the game completely: zergling runby’s are normally good for Zerg and bad for Protoss. With alphastar, it was the opposite, because it could micro to avoid losing any workers. Its disruptor micro was again unmatched.
Now, my last argument for why alphastar wasn’t some sort of brilliant tactician was that eventually people figured out that it’s susceptible to all the same problems a normal bot is: you can dart a warp prism in and out of its vision and it will send its army back and forth, you can confuse it by going mass raven/PF etc. and it’s completely unable to adapt. So in conclusion, no: AlphaStar doesn’t say anything one way or another about military AIs.
- K0balt 3y agoThe word is pwned, not pawned, by the way. I suspect your autocorrect, as well as op’s has had it’s way with your prose. I often wonder how much autocorrect will shape the evolution of language.
- mnw21cam 3y agos/it's/its/
- notahacker 3y ago> I often wonder how much autocorrect will shape the evolution of language Apple recently announced that it was going to stop autocorrecting a certain expletive intensifier to "ducking", and I think that one actually had the potential to catch on.... I wonder if it'll ultimately do more to preserve ridiculous quirks of English spelling (and US/UK distinctions) most people don't remember or care about than change language
- sakras 3y agoThat’s hilarious, I did actually write “pawned” intentionally, but while writing it I thought, “Haven’t heard this one before, but I guess it makes sense, it treated them like pawns in chess”
- kebman 3y ago[flagged]
- sakras 3y ago> Also AlphaStar can teach absolutely nothing to the army tacticians. This is the only sentence of your summary that accurately portrays my comment. I do think they are investing in tactical AIs, you even see it with those new loyal wingman UAVs. But the notion that AlphaStar proves that we already have tactical AIs that outperform humans is absurd.