DeepMind's AI wants to beat us at video game StarCraft next

Artificial intelligence has a new target in its cross hairs for 2017: StarCraft, a real-time war strategy game series. The AI's ability to win at Go was particularly impressive owing to the complexity of the ancient Chinese game. Mastering the chaos in StarCraft will therefore have implications beyond video games: it should improve AI's ability to deal with reality. "Mastering the chaos of StarCraft should help AIs deal with reality" This article appeared in print under the headline "Gamers in AI's cross hairs"