After mastering Go, these computers are learning to play StarCraft

Earlier this year, researchers’ artificial intelligence beat a human in the dazzlingly complex board game known as Go. Not just once, but four times. It was a milestone in machine learning.<p>Now, the same Google-backed researchers that designed AlphaGo have their sights set on dominating a new game: …

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<i>Editor’s Note: It has been brought to out attention that several of the author’s original comments about the documentation were incorrect. We have</i> …