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Opportunities for Improvement in AlphaStar's Performance
51:01 - 1:01:16 (10:15)
While AlphaStar's performance has been impressive in the game of StarCraft 2, there is still much room for improvement due to the limitations of its prior distribution and lack of experience with certain strategies.
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In Starcraft, creating personality in the agents can lead to evolution of agents that generate the perfect counter to the distribution.
51:01 - 56:20 (05:18)
Starcraft
Summary
In Starcraft, creating personality in the agents can lead to evolution of agents that generate the perfect counter to the distribution. Self-play is getting stuck at finding a subset of strategies, like cheeses, early aggression, and later aggression, but not all.
ChapterOpportunities for Improvement in AlphaStar's Performance
EpisodeOriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Despite Alpha Star's impressive performance in Starcraft, there is still potential for humans to learn and improve their gameplay quickly.
56:20 - 1:01:16 (04:56)
Alpha Star
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Despite Alpha Star's impressive performance in Starcraft, there is still potential for humans to learn and improve their gameplay quickly. Alpha Star's AI may have a high level of raw performance, but it still has limitations and opportunities to explore in the game.