Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots, and Loses
Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots, and Loses
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 12, 20178m 6s
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Show Notes
In the distant Koprulu Sector of the Milky Way, Facebook’s Zerglings lingered in a restless swarm outside the enemy’s base. After the commander ill-advisedly opened the gate, the social network’s alien horde stormed in and slaughtered forces stationed inside, in a battle fought on the frontiers of artificial-intelligence research. The bloody incident was part of an annual competition of the videogame StarCraft for AI software bots that wrapped up Sunday.
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