DeepMind AI Beats Professional Human StarCraft II Players

DeepMind has achieved yet another milestone in the gaming world. The Google-owned artificial intelligence lab announced on Thursday that its new "AlphaStar" AI had beaten two of the world's best StarCraft II players. The pros that AlphaStar beat are Dario Wunsch and Grzego rz Komincz -- they're ranked 44th and 13th in the world respectively. The victories are being hailed as a major breakthrough by academics and AI industry watchers. While there have been several successes in video games such as Atari, Mario, Quake III Arena Capture the Flag, and Dota 2, AI systems haven't been able to deal with the complexity of StarCraft.