DeepMind previously took on the challenge of beating world champions at the Chinese game of Go. It’s also gotten astonishingly good at Chess and Shogi, and has wiped the floor with the best AIs developed for those games. In August 2017, the Alphabet-owned firm decided to take on a much bigger and more complex challenge: training an AI to master Starcraft II. The immensely popular real-time strategy game sees players take charge of an alien race, gather resources, develop technologies, and pit your army against others in a bid for supremacy in a fictious sci-fi universe. In a series of matches…

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