Facebook AI Loses at StarCraft

Paul Bellow · Oct 9, 2017

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 alien horde stormed in and slaughtered forces stationed inside, in a battle fought on the frontiers of artificial-intelligence research.

The bloody incident was part of an annual competition of the videogame StarCraft for AI software bots that wrapped up Sunday. Facebook quietly entered a bot called CherryPi designed by eight people employed by or affiliated with its AI research lab.

The social network’s stealthy space war suggests Facebook is serious about competing with Google and others to set showy new milestones in AI smarts. Google’s London-based DeepMind AI research unit made headlines last year when its AlphaGo software defeated a champion at the board game Go. In August, DeepMind declared StarCraft II, the latest version of the game, as its next target.

The contest Facebook entered, like most AI research in the area, used an older version of StarCraft, which is considered equally difficult for software to master. Facebook’s AI research group, which lists 80 researchers on its website and is led by NYU professor Yann LeCun, has produced many research papers but not notched up an achievement as striking as Google’s with Go. Facebook has released three research papers on StarCraft, but not announced a special effort to conquer the game.
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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-quietly-enters-starcraft-war-for-ai-bots-and-loses/

MrPotatoMan · Oct 9, 2017

I like it how we all ignore the fact facebook built a zerg rush AI just goes to show even computers cheese

Yuli Ban · Oct 13, 2017

Facebook's trying to beat DeepMind to the punch when their AI hasn't achieved any major noteworthy feats? Ended about as well as I expected.

MrPotatoMan · Oct 15, 2017

I cant tell if the car flipped over and crashed into the vending machine or of the vending machine flipped the car over or some other weird combination that image is confusing me.

Seagrim · Oct 18, 2017

Maybe the vending machine hit the guy with a car? Some of them really don't like to be shaken.

Alexis Keane · Oct 18, 2017

Or maybe the guy was surfing the vending machine. Was, being the operative word.

Those vending machine accidents are nasty

Yuli Ban · Oct 19, 2017

Clearly that guy had some extra special fetishes and wanted to get it on with a car and a vending machine, leading to predictable results!

Alexis Keane · Oct 19, 2017

Yuli Ban said: ↑

Clearly that guy had some extra special fetishes and wanted to get it on with a car and a vending machine, leading to predictable results!
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I can totally relate to that.

Seagrim · Oct 19, 2017

Never have a menage a trois with heavy equipment.

It's the first thing you learn watching power rangers.

MrPotatoMan · Oct 21, 2017

Pretty sure I know what happened here the guy got drunk with his car and vending machine (dont ask me how) and they all passed out on the way home.

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