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Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Alpha Star vs Starcraft - What's the Difference?

In instarka, you can make some units that you need to have a particular kind of unit to detect it. So these units are invisible. If you cannot detect them, you cannot target them. But despite the fact you cannot target the unit, there's a shimmer that's a human you observe. And so this shi professional players actually can see it immediately. Th they understand it very well. Whereas for alpha star, in terms of vision, it's very hard for us to simulate sort of a n are you looking at this pixa in the screen and so on. It is a perception problem.

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