AI V Humans (Part 2) - Esports Legends Battle With AlphaStar (Google DeepMind)

Every so often on the podcast we will bring you something a little bit different.This episode is part two of our conversation with Esports Legends TLO & MaNa.  They are professional Starcraft II players and they tell us the story of what it was like to compete against Google DeepMinds AlphaStar AI agent.This is a fascinating discussion about the technical capability of AI agents and about the psychology involved when Humans take on the machines.Episode SummaryThe live event Rematch against AlphaStarThe game plan for the rematchTrying to match AlphaStarThe importance of the human aspect to the future of Starcraft IIWhat TLO & MaNa learned from AlphaStarThe importance of human intervention to prevent mistakes from the AIWhat impact could AlphaStar have on improving Esports players?Did AlphaStar Show any signs of being able to improvise?Mistakes AlphaStar madeWhy limiting the abilities of an AI might make it smarterCan AI develop intuition in the future?Resources:Deepmind Alphastar Videos:https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resourcesTLO Profile: - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/TLOMaNa Profile:  - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/MaNa