To actually accomplish that, you need to direct your units to gather resources to allow you to build buildings, which in turn will allow you to build more units for your army. In basic terms, the aim of StarCraft II is to build an army to overwhelm your opponent, who is trying to do the same thing. For researchers to develop a more complex AI, they need a bit more of a challenge. AIs have mastered board games like chess, Go and even video games like Super Mario, but these games have relatively simple rules.

By getting them to learn by playing, researchers think that this could be a better way for AIs to understand the world around them. But it’s not just humans who need to learn life skills – artificial intelligences do as well. Whether it was a friendly game of football or an unfriendly game of Monopoly, play allows humans to acquire skills that they’ll go on to use in later life. When you were young, how did you learn? School, of course, but also likely through playing games. I’m Shamini Bundell.įirst up, reporter Nick Howe has been finding out about a new challenger in the world of online gaming. This week, an AI becomes a video game Grandmaster…Īnd the disappearance of our arthropods.

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News Article: Google AI beats experienced human players at real-time strategy game StarCraft II 10:08 Research HighlightsĪ record-breaking lightning bolt, and identifying our grey matter’s favourite tunes. By studying and experimenting, an AI has reached Grandmaster level at the video game Starcraft II.

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