DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI sweeps StarCraft II pros in head-to-head match

Computers are getting more sophisticated than ever at understanding and playing complicated games. DeepMind, one of the leaders in artificial intelligence, proved that once again today with its latest A.I. agent called AlphaStar. During a livestream, this program took on two StarCraft II pros in a series of five matches for each, and AlphaStar swept all 10 matches.

StarCraft II pros Dario “TLO” Wünsch and Greegorz “MaNa” Komincz are two of the top players in the world. But neither could handle neural-network-powered AlphaStar. Blizzard opened up StarCraft II to A.I. researchers last year, and that has resulted in huge leaps in computer performance.