In summary, my claim that DeepMind was throwing in the towel was wrong; they came back with a more polished version that was able to beat the world champion 4 out of 5 times
This statement, while technically correct, seems a bit misleading because being the world champion in Starcraft 2 really doesn’t correlate well with being proficient at playing against AI. Check out thisstreamer who played against AlphaStar at the same event, without warm-up or his own setup (just like Serral) and went 7-3. What’s more, he’s pretty much got AlphaStar figured out by the end, and I’m fairly confident that if he was paid to play another 100 games, his win rate would be 90%+
This statement, while technically correct, seems a bit misleading because being the world champion in Starcraft 2 really doesn’t correlate well with being proficient at playing against AI. Check out this streamer who played against AlphaStar at the same event, without warm-up or his own setup (just like Serral) and went 7-3. What’s more, he’s pretty much got AlphaStar figured out by the end, and I’m fairly confident that if he was paid to play another 100 games, his win rate would be 90%+