Welcome to man vs machine! In the red corner representing humanity we have a
master player zerg! and over in the blue corner we have the artificial
intelligence ALPHASTAR also playing a zerg! Google Deepmind first came into the
spotlight for creating AlphaGO the first ai agent to defeat human GO players. It
even defeated the world champion of GO. For those unfamiliar Go is incredibly
more complex than chess. In fact There are 10 to the power of 170 possible configurations.
To put that in perspective that is more than the number of atoms in the known
universe. So you might say a few possibilities. Creating an AI that
masters a game like Starcraft is considered a grand challenge for AI
research no system had previously been
able to rival professional players until
now alpha star uses a deep neural
network that is trained directly from
raw game data from supervised learning
and reinforcement learning
hundreds of alpha star agents were
created during this process at first
they were trained from human game
replays and then trained against other
alpha star agents in total each agent
experienced 200 years of real time
struck Starcraft play imagine how good
you'd be after 200 years at each
iteration new competitors were branched
and the original agents were frozen
through the iterations matchmaking
probabilities and the value controlling
the learning process were adapted
increasing difficulty while preserving
diversity the game outcomes dictated the
reinforced learning the final agent was
sampled from the Nash distribution of
the league in other words the most
effective mixture of strategies that had
been discovered in the matches we will
watch alpha star sees just as you and I
see through the camera but it is limited
to 22 actions per 5 seconds which seems
low at only 250 for APM without further
adue to the action the human third
player is expanded to their natural
second base already going over to his
main base we see the spawning pool in
some zerglings let's go ahead and track
these earthling and see where they go
maybe to scout maybe to attack probably
to attack put some pressure on his
opponent but little does he know he's
facing an artificial intelligence that
will not get tilted sees him overlords
passing in the breeze
nothing else going on at this point
alpha star is on its second base as well
but has nothing to think it defend
against these zerglings that are coming
in so they will get some pressure on but
I'll start immediately is probably built
yep building some zerglings Queen I'm
gonna answer a little skirmish and the
chase is on will alpha star chase all
the way back let's see anything else
going on you just some overlords spot
and travel on the map each player and
the AI are researching their speed for
the zerglings but I think the master
player was a bit ahead on there and if
that AI players got GUI bloody mess of
dead third wings lunch served okay
wonder what point they're gonna step up
and start doing other stuff and just
circling sir machines well we have
banelings from alpha star
that can take down a mass of zerglings
for you if done right all right so far
the losses are about same Army's about
the same little in the lead for the
master player worker count running
towards alpha star and production supply
everything's a very close one mother
runs our gear on you're getting chased
alright okay there's the banelings okay
we helping out
everybody got involved in that action
all right what we got coming up the road
sworen we got tech for AI no no a little
party just chatting here well overlord
what even seen lately oh not much how
about you about the same okay though
circlings are getting in but not that
many got into survived getting in that
is nothing really came out of that
attack okay there's a melee attack from
the master player good choice and
what we got going on Oh a tree going up
in the world
all right and the human player is also
researching carapace behind that and
evolving its hatchery as well continual
skirmishes no player seems to be getting
the upper hand there one things I was
talking about earlier is the number of
agents this is just one iteration
there's actually a lot of iterations and
alpha star played equivalency of
hundreds of years of matches to learn
the game properly okay why is it
continually sending in zerglings like
that I don't know but that's usually a
bad sign or a bad idea but the roaches
are here and they're gonna shut down
those zerglings quite easily third base
from alpha start and same are the same
as the human player nice little circling
baneling army although banelings won't
do great against roaches yeah
Who am I kidding they really do not do
good they can't get in in their face
got a nice push coming from alpha star
this could be scary that human player
might be shaking in his boots a bit
wrote Warren he's producing a lot of
roaches behind this vein Ling's oh he's
building this fire so if alpha star does
not catch on that that spires come in I
don't know if they'll have or it will
have anything behind this for to protect
itself from any air units all right that
roach
so that roach attack did survive out now
it's gonna shut down well he's got the
advantage alpha star is so you should
push it it should push it push that
advantage take out a base lose something
okay missile tech also coming from a
human player muta lists are coming wings
getting some damage
alpha put alpha star is don't know if
it's gonna be enough if those muta lists
come out alpha star won't have an answer
for it a lot of roaches come out of
alpha star but a roach doesn't shoot up
so that's usually a bad thing so we'll
see how long this lasts for yep
human player is just creating a lot more
zerglings and he lists
so we might have a problem on our hands
for the AI okay this was also the first
match listed on the Zerg for alpha star
so this is the one I decided to release
first but yeah those muta looks okay
roaches you should be attacking you're
gonna die anyways if you just sit back
and the queen is trying to defend
against all those Earthlings probably
not gonna work out too well and
banelings more Mila's getting produced
behind this why are we making an itis
worm okay yeah that's an interesting
decision ah those meatless are looking
to be a little bit of a nuisance
okay Queens you produce enough um Oh
Hydralisk okay I mean that is an answer
to Neil escs we'll see how well Dai does
with that looks like right now that
master players want to use those
medalists to annoy well not in just
annoy actually in supply block alpha
start and that's more than a just an
annoyance as a nuisance um I wouldn't be
sending my overlords over there to die
but hey you know there's got to be some
logic to its decision-making after all
alpha star they try and get a response
alpha star probably won't make a
decision unless it knows it can win with
that one but it needs to respond it
needs to adapt to this player because if
it doesn't it's gonna lose
is it that mean mute alaskateam is
really just causing a havoc on the
backline worker count was a head but now
it's getting about the same now if you
were facing a alpha star such a strong
artificial intelligence would you be
playing any differently okay come on
Queen you can't do this alone
you'll be coming to save the day
well officer is producing behind this so
but it needs Cara Pass need some
research losses are still about even
although alpha star is a little behind
and that can that mule esteem is just
continuing just to run around and mess
with the AI ooh that was gooey all right
come on
nihlus you can catch it quick response
good micro and behind this this is what
it is he's doing so while it's making
the AI respond to the Middle's of course
it's building up pretty strong attack
team here that's smart
what in the world is like I do in there
alone that's just asking for to die
okay now everything's together is he
gonna move in I'm gonna go for the
throat wait why is another small not
sure why the a I think small heat like
not very mobile teams that are good to
send in you know you want your force to
stay together like that it's stronger
together
if you unless you're very mobile like
the mule escs right as that showed very
fast get in get out before the enemy can
respond and muta list just sitting here
alone and i Coralie not even one kill
out of it
poor poor Hydralisk think i spoke there
long ago but oh well dad hatcheries done
for and I'm quick enough response in and
out okay one Roach won't is thinking it
can take on their that team
he's still lied took long enough for the
human player to respond
okay so master player is now producing
Hydralisk s' behind this our paws are
beginning lurkers is that really a
decision that the AI thinks is gonna be
best lurkers also don't shoot shoot up I
don't know if the AI knows this or not
but it's gonna learn from this match
yeah
come on AI you need to adapt what you're
facing okay that finally the mute lists
are starting to die a little bit but I
think the human player didn't really
caring Marquez and get sees that it's in
a really good strong position to attack
okay
there's a good fight uh-oh that was bad
the roaches needed to be in front
yeah let's see about the same bosses but
the army split up and that's been picked
off that's not good for AI overseer okay
I mean it's not neither player is
completely out of it yet but look at
these upgrades
now the AI is researching car opossum
one that's just way too late
and these zerglings are having a field
day over here I mean technically if you
wanna go by the numbers I'll star still
has a stronger army but I don't feel as
confident with it as I do with the
master players and I'll start does have
is behind on worker count I don't know
supply is about even in the end so we'll
see I just think the master player is
making better decisions he'll not move
in
slowly dragging along funny to watch
those guy little things drag itself
along
more research more research flying into
echo okay I mean they are on relatively
even grounds mice player is clicking up
a bunch Wow
700 nice decent master player that's for
sure
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this is the first end mini of the match
videos that I will be okay see I wanted
to take a different approach with my
channel
and I felt focusing on some alpha star
might be a good way to turn things
around
well we got the zerglings dancing looks
like it might be fun to join but
probably wouldn't end too well for us
they might look at us and go lunch
instead of oh hey a dance partner oh we
got little Scout force basically
okay they got in yeah lurkers in mass
them my one was down and it did not
prevent the zerglings from getting in
fun what are we waiting for both players
are testing the waters billing back
they'll just produce it you know oh we
got going on hmm
is he going towards brood Lords yeah
that might finish this off pretty
quickly
I mean couples for crawlers or the AI
but nothing that's gonna really stop
brood Lords I mean right now the AI
should be producing Vipers at the least
that would help with the hydraulics if
those brood Lords directly over
Hydralisk and then it's days are
numbered
but if you don't have a way to get those
brood Lords over the Hydralisk or the
Hydralisk underneath the brood lord it's
bye-bye
well neck a spy by overseer another
small roach horse here
seems like officers using the roaches as
a scouting force much like the human
players using the zerglings and that
roach just walked to his death let me
you just suicide myself in boss thanks
disposable units I guess the AI looks at
the mass um okay that's bad run or run
very fast you know what wrong way
you're supposed to run the other way or
not you know hey he wants to live
forever
here come the brood Lords have arrived
hey sayonara master player has lurkers
too so do the one who controls the air
it tends to be the one who wins but
we'll see I mean there goes alpha stars
named force
and there goes the lurkers for crawlers
can't do anything the blue guards mean
that far away so I think this is gonna
be all she wrote
we'll see I mean it's not completely
over yet whatever reason AI thinks it
still has a chance otherwise it would
have tapped out if it was pretty much
any human player I'm pretty sure they
would have tapped out right now or
actually had responded to the muta list
anyways in the beginning but AI makes
its decisions as it does all the
different agents you really play the
game differently than one another
Oh
uh-oh you should be shaking in your
boots wait where the hydral is going
there
this carnage on both sides actually
mostly on alphas our site but hey who's
counting right
I would like to see alpha star brought
back in this iteration it only played on
the European ladder oh let's see
can you get underneath oh one brood Lord
I finally okay that that's shut down now
I would like to have seen it brought
back and that anybody can play alpha
star at any time but these were released
after alpha star had reached the top of
the ladder so to say so the team the
team behind officer the deep mine team
actually moved on to other projects but
other AIS are out there okay I'm not
sure why he mined alpha star thinks it
can go on from here but hey it still
fights it's not giving up never give up
never surrender but sometimes you just
have to accept accept reality and it did
make some vipers but there's a little
late to the show the same
and you drag it over to the sport
crawler you can surrender anytime you
want now just sayin alright I hope you
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