We are Oriol Vinyals and David Silver from DeepMind’s AlphaStar team, joined by StarCraft II pro players TLO and MaNa! Ask us anything

Hi there! We are Oriol Vinyals (/u/OriolVinyals) and David Silver (/u/David_Silver), lead researchers on DeepMind’s AlphaStar team, joined by StarCraft II pro players TLO, and MaNa.

This evening at DeepMind HQ we held a livestream demonstration of AlphaStar playing against TLO and MaNa - you can read more about the matches here or re-watch the stream on YouTube here.

Now, we’re excited to talk with you about AlphaStar, the challenge of real-time strategy games for AI research, the matches themselves, and anything you’d like to know from TLO and MaNa about their experience playing against AlphaStar! :)

We are opening this thread now and will be here at 16:00 GMT / 11:00 ET / 08:00PT on Friday, 25 January to answer your questions.

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EDIT: Thanks everyone for your great questions. It was a blast, hope you enjoyed it as well!