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As such, an AI training process needs to continually explore and expand the frontiers of strategic knowledge.

Game theory:В StarCraft is a game where, just like rock-paper-scissors, there is no single best strategy.

Mastering this problem requires breakthroughs in several AI research challenges including: The need to balance short and long-term goals and adapt to unexpected situations, poses a huge challenge for systems that have often tended to be brittle and inflexible. To win, a player must carefully balance big-picture management of their economy - known as macro - along with low-level control of their individual units - known as micro. These in turn allow a player to harvest other resources, build more sophisticated bases and structures, and develop new capabilities that can be used to outwit the opponent. Each player starts with a number of worker units, which gather basic resources to build more units and structures and create new technologies.

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To start, a player must choose to play one of three different alien вЂњracesвЂќ - Zerg, Protoss or Terran, all of which have distinctive characteristics and abilities (although professional players tend to specialise in one race). There are several different ways to play the game, but in esports the most common is a 1v1 tournament played over five games.

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In contrast, AlphaStar plays the full game of StarCraft II, using a deep neural network that is trained directly from raw game data by supervised learningВ and reinforcement learning. Even with these modifications, no system has come anywhere close to rivalling the skill of professional players. The best resultsВ were made possible by hand-crafting major elements of the system, imposing significant restrictions on the game rules, giving systems superhuman capabilities, or by playing on simplified maps. The matches took place under professional match conditions on a competitive ladder mapВ and without any game restrictions.ДЄlthough there have been significant successes in video games such as Atari, Mario, Quake III Arena Capture the Flag, and Dota 2, until now, AI techniques have struggled to cope with the complexity of StarCraft. In a series of test matches held on 19 December, AlphaStar decisively beat Team LiquidвЂ™sВ Grzegorz ' MaNa' Komincz, one of the worldвЂ™s strongest professional StarCraft players, 5-0, following a successful benchmark match against his team-mate Dario вЂњ TLOвЂќ WГјnsch. Now, we introduce our StarCraft IIВ program AlphaStar, the first Artificial Intelligence to defeat a top professional player.

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