Super Upgraded StarCraft AI Still Beat by Humans

By Marcus Yam
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Brains still better than silicon.

Are you good at StarCraft? Even if you're not a superstar in Korea, maybe you're good enough to beat the computer AI that's built by Blizzard. Perhaps what will really challenge you is an AI built by university programmers.

The AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition was held last week at the University of California, and had different AIs and even humans battling it out for supremacy… all in the name of research, of course.

=DoGo=, a World Cyber Games 2001 competitor, played against the top ranking AI at AIIDE 2010 and won! Score one for the humans.

Check out all the details at the EIS Blog, as well as plenty of videos from the matches.

via Kotaku

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
69 Comments Comment from the forums
  • remind me of the battles between a grandmaster of chess and an IBM supercomputer
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  • LORD_ORION
    Do the AIs cheat?
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  • Stifle
    They will always be predictable because they are programmed
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  • sudeshc
    thats why they are not exactly perfect AI.
    I hope that they don't become that intelligent, than some day we may find our self in one of those terminator/Matrix movies like world.
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  • dormantreign
    And blizzard never sued them for hacking the game?
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  • jfby
    sudeshcthats why they are not exactly perfect AI. I hope that they don't become that intelligent, than some day we may find our self in one of those terminator/Matrix movies like world.
    I just watched this last night... if they become self aware and we try to pull the plug, the worst this system can do now is release the Zerg on unsuspecting SCII players online...
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  • youssef 2010
    AI's can never be perfect,as they're programmed by humans.So,Other humans will always be able to beat it
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  • samdsox
    DAmn't sudesch stole my terminator reference lol. I was gona say maybe we can actually beat the termintors when they try to take over the world lol. Just send in some starcraft gamers.
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  • cronik93
    Well yeah, AI become pretty predictable in almost every game the more you play it.
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  • AI should be able to beat humans, if written correctly and efficiently.
    AI has the advantage of processing speed, and almost zero delay between actions.

    It's obvious that the guys who wrote the AI don't really know how StarCraft is played.
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