Wired

Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots, and Loses

In the distant Koprulu Sector of the Milky Way, Facebook’s Zerglings lingered in a restless swarm outside the enemy’s base. After the commander ill-advisedly opened the gate, the social network’s ...
Gizmodo

AI Bot Is the First to Play StarCraft II at the Grandmaster Level

Computer scientists at DeepMind have developed an artificially intelligent bot capable of defeating the world’s best players at StarCraft II, the popular real-time strategy video game. New research ...
PCGamesN

Watch a StarCraft: Brood War tournament for student-made bots

The Student StarCraft AI Tournament is a bit like poking a bear. First held in 2011, it tasks students of AI and computer science to submit bots for 1v1 StarCraft battles. It might not happen this ...
Wired

DeepMind Beats Pros at StarCraft in Another Triumph for Bots

In London last month, a team from Alphabet’s UK-based artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind quietly laid a new marker in the contest between humans and computers. On Thursday it revealed the ...
Digital Trends

Google’s DeepMind is training Waymo’s self-driving cars like StarCraft II bots

DeepMind is teaming up with Waymo, a fellow unit of Google parent Alphabet, to train self-driving cars, using the same method that was created to teach artificial intelligence bots how to play ...
Ars Technica

Programmers Symposium game/competition? Starcraft AI Bots?

So, I just saw (on slashdot I think) news of an AI competition for Starcraft bots. Following the link takes you here where you can find the API and examples for making a bot that plays Starcraft. The ...