DeepMind's latest AI trounces young males at playing video games

[gary]

DeepMind Technologies, the Google-owned UK company behind the AlphaGo
and AlphaZero AI self-learning game-playing programs, has gone on to
create AlphaStar, which has taught itself to play a video game
called "StarCraft II" so well, that it has trounced a succession of
champion players.

Willie D. Jones writes about it at IEEE Spectrum.





The real moral of the story is probably that if you were a young male
who was useless at everything except playing video games, with the
emergence of DeepMind Technologies self-learning algorithms, you are
now officially useless at everything. :thumbsup: :lol:

AlphaStar press release and video :-
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/

IEEE Spectrum article "DeepMind’s AI Shows Itself to Be a
World-Beating World Builder" :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/deepminds-ai-shows-itself-to-be-a-worldbeating-world-builder

AlphaGo documentary movie trailer :-
https://youtu.be/8tq1C8spV_g

[multiweb]

A long as it has an on/off switch we have a fighting chance. :)



:lol::lol::lol:

[gary]

Hi Marc,

:lol::lol::lol:

The late Claude Shannon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon), who is regarded as the father of Information
Theory and who first realised and demonstrated the utility of Boolean
logic to the design of switching circuits and who we would generally say
fits the mould of someone we would call a "genius", also had a mischievous
sense of humour and loved building machines.

He had an answer to that way back in 1952 when he built this marvellous machine :- :lol:
https://youtu.be/kt3csIz3hEk

[multiweb]

A toy to give as a gift to someone who always has the last word. :thumbsup:
Might consider this for the 14th of this month. :question: