GitHub Repo Trains StarCraft Brood War AI by Self-Play
AI engineers discuss a GitHub project training a neural network for StarCraft Brood War via self-play reinforcement learning.
Entities: Pluto, Gabriel Synnaeve
A GitHub repository named Pluto presents a neural network for StarCraft: Brood War trained entirely from scratch using self-play reinforcement learning. The project employs a value model with access to both players' policy information. Researcher Gabriel Synnaeve, who works on RL and game AI at Meta FAIR, confirmed after viewing gameplay footage that the system functions as described. The discussion involves other AI specialists with backgrounds at xAI, DeepMind, and Google. The repository remains publicly available as the primary source of the implementation.
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GitHub Repo Trains StarCraft Brood War AI by Self-Play
AI engineers discuss a GitHub project training a neural network for StarCraft Brood War via self-play reinforcement learning.
Entities: Pluto, Gabriel Synnaeve
A GitHub repository named Pluto presents a neural network for StarCraft: Brood War trained entirely from scratch using self-play reinforcement learning. The project employs a value model with access to both players' policy information. Researcher Gabriel Synnaeve, who works on RL and game AI at Meta FAIR, confirmed after viewing gameplay footage that the system functions as described. The discussion involves other AI specialists with backgrounds at xAI, DeepMind, and Google. The repository remains publicly available as the primary source of the implementation.
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@HeinrichKuttler @ebetica @nntsn @dgant I saw it play, it works.