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Episode 5

Part 1

AI V Humans (Part 1)- Esports Legends Battle With Alphastar (Google Deepmind)

Alphastar, TLO

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Every so often on the podcast we will bring you something 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.

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Episode Summary

  • A typical day for an esports athlete
  • The similarities and differences between Esports and normal sports
  • The importance of actions and screens per minutes for high performance
  • The role of gaming in driving development of AI
  • Evolution of gaming AI agents
  • The challenges in competing against a blackbox
  • Exploiting the game playing tendencies of the AlphaStar
  • The psychological pressure of playing against AlphaStar
  • Underestimating the ability of AlphaStar

Resources:

Deepmind Alphastar Videos – View Link

TLO Profile: – View Link

MaNa Profile:  – View Link

In this series

Episode 1

AI V Humans (Part 2)- Esports Legends Battle With AlphaStar (Google Deepmind)

Alphastar, TLO

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.

Transcript