Kaj_Sotala comments on AlphaStar: Impressive for RL progress, not for AGI progress

Kaj_Sotala 2 Nov 2019 8:03 UTC
6 points

I think that DeepMind realized they’d need another breakthrough to do what they did to Go, and decided to throw in the towel while making it look like they were claiming victory.

Do we know that DeepMind is giving up on StarCraft now? I’d been assuming that this was a similar kind of intermediate result as the MaNa/TLO matches, and that they would carry on with development.
- orthonormal 2 Nov 2019 16:18 UTC
  10 points
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  DeepMind says it hopes the techniques used to develop AlphaStar will ultimately help it “advance our research in real-world domains”.
  But Prof Silver said the lab “may rest at this point”, rather than try to get AlphaStar to the level of the very elite players.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50212841