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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by TulliusCicero on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:55PM (#12875512)
In practice right now the AI still loses even with unlimited APM. It's just too dumb to really take advantage of its execution speed.
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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by nogbit on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:49PM (#12876857)
Buts it's intentionally dumbed down to keep the game fun, loosing all the time would get frustrating real quick. Theres no ROI for AI devs to kick the humans ass (except for maybe now with our AI/Cloud/VR/ craze).
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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by stale2002 on Friday November 04, 2016 @08:37PM (#12877431)
No it is not.

People were making custom AIs for starcraft 2 since it was in beta. They can't beat any human worth their salt.

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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI re... by TulliusCicero on Sunday November 06, 2016 @04:32PM (#12887154)
It is not intentionally dumbed down. Current AIs are just too stupid at strategy and tactics to beat competent human players.
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