27 min
AI V Humans (Part 1) - Esports Legends Battle With AlphaStar (Google DeepMind) Data Science Conversations
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- Technology
Every so often on the podcast we will bring you something that is a little bit different.
This episode is part one of a conversation with Esports Legends TLO & MaNa. They are professional Starcraft II players and they tell us the story of what it was like to compete against Google DeepMinds AlphaStar AI agent.
This is a fascinating discussion about the technical capability of AI agents and about the psychology involved when Humans take on the machines.
Episode Summary
A typical day for an esports athleteThe similarities and differences between Esports and normal sportsThe importance of actions and screens per minutes for high performanceThe role of gaming in driving development of AIEvolution of gaming AI agentsThe challenges in competing against a blackboxExploiting the game playing tendencies of the AlphaStarThe psychological pressure of playing against AlphaStarUnderestimating the ability of AlphaStar
Resources:
Deepmind Alphastar Videos:
https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resources
TLO Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/TLO
MaNa Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/MaNa
Every so often on the podcast we will bring you something that is a little bit different.
This episode is part one of a conversation with Esports Legends TLO & MaNa. They are professional Starcraft II players and they tell us the story of what it was like to compete against Google DeepMinds AlphaStar AI agent.
This is a fascinating discussion about the technical capability of AI agents and about the psychology involved when Humans take on the machines.
Episode Summary
A typical day for an esports athleteThe similarities and differences between Esports and normal sportsThe importance of actions and screens per minutes for high performanceThe role of gaming in driving development of AIEvolution of gaming AI agentsThe challenges in competing against a blackboxExploiting the game playing tendencies of the AlphaStarThe psychological pressure of playing against AlphaStarUnderestimating the ability of AlphaStar
Resources:
Deepmind Alphastar Videos:
https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resources
TLO Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/TLO
MaNa Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/MaNa
27 min