Every so often on the podcast we will bring you something a little bit different.

This episode is part two of our conversation with Esports Legends TLO & MaNa.  They are professional Starcraft II players and they tell us the story of what it was like to compete against Google DeepMinds AlphaStar AI agent.

This is a fascinating discussion about the technical capability of AI agents and about the psychology involved when Humans take on the machines.

Episode Summary

• The live event Rematch against AlphaStar
• The game plan for the rematch
• Trying to match AlphaStar
• The importance of the human aspect to the future of Starcraft II
• What TLO & MaNa learned from AlphaStar
• The importance of human intervention to prevent mistakes from the AI
• What impact could AlphaStar have on improving Esports players?
• Did AlphaStar Show any signs of being able to improvise?
• Mistakes AlphaStar made
• Why limiting the abilities of an AI might make it smarter
• Can AI develop intuition in the future?

Resources:

Deepmind Alphastar Videos:

https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resources

TLO Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/TLO

MaNa Profile:  - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/MaNa