Facebook’s ‘StarCraft’ AI was defeated by hobbyists

Facebook’s artificial intelligence bot, CherryPi, placed a respectable 6th out of 28 combatants, but it’s definitely late to the AI-playing-strategy-games game. Hobbyists have been pitting their programmed players against each other on the aging StarCraft since the late 2000s. Even Google jumped onboard last year, deploying its DeepMind AI to play the game’s newer sequel, …

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