Recently, the artificial intelligence system from Google called DeepMind is often mentioned in the titles of the various technoscene, learning all the new “chips” and finding application in all new fields of robotics. But the desire to teach the AI to play video games is a relatively new trend among developers. We recently wrote that artificial intelligence has learned and even beat the man in DooM, and now Google teaches its system game in StarCraft II.
Series StarCraft was developed by Blizzard back in 1998 and for almost 20 years of its existence grew out of the conventional space Sci-Fi strategy in a serious eSports discipline with a system of leagues and Championships, take a look at who wouldn’t mind millions of viewers and prize pools hundreds of dollars. Over the years, game developers have honed the balance between the three warring parties near ideal. To date, the second numbered part of the series StarCraft is one of the best games where you can test your tactical skills. No wonder it was on Google and decided to test their “electronic brains.”
It is worth saying that in StarCraft II developments based on artificial intelligence have been used for long enough to control the behavior of computer opponent, making the computer opponent is not acting on a pre-defined algorithms, and plans its development based on the situation on the battlefield. At the moment, DeepMind was “trained” against a computer opponent, so you can say that now on the virtual fields is a struggle “AI vs AI”. After DeepMind learns all the wisdom of the strategy will be the turn to challenge people, among whom, according to the developers, “players will be of the highest class”.
To provide artificial intelligence DeepMind access to the game experts Blizzard and Google have jointly developed a special API that allows the AI to connect to the game directly, and not to see the image through a special camera, while the AI doesn’t cheat and also not all the playing field, but only that he would be watching, if “watched” on the screen. This was done to minimize the delays and improve the functioning of the entire system. Read more at how Google DeepMind playing StarCraft ll, you can watch the short video below.
Artificial intelligence DeepMind Google will soon compete against people in the game Starcraft II
Vladimir Kuznetsov