When deepmind announced they were working on sc2 expected it to be good, but not this good. Compare this to the top bots in SSCAIT (a BW AI tournament) and it's already so far ahead of anything that's existed up to this point. I'm eagerly looking forward to them playing all maps and matchups, I suspect it should be relatively easy to extend to. They've still got a long road ahead but this makes me think they can do it.
However, they keep harping on the APM being similar to a top human and it's just not. Maybe the average for a whole game is, but during fights it was bursting over 1500 APM with perfect execution. This wasn't just spam clicking corrosive bile or something like a human might to get that high but truly coordinated targeting and unit movement. This had lead it to use pathological unit compositions that wouldn't be effective for human play (like pure stalkers beating immortals). If they set a hard max APM to something like 600 I think it would develop more useful strategies.
However, they keep harping on the APM being similar to a top human and it's just not. Maybe the average for a whole game is, but during fights it was bursting over 1500 APM with perfect execution. This wasn't just spam clicking corrosive bile or something like a human might to get that high but truly coordinated targeting and unit movement. This had lead it to use pathological unit compositions that wouldn't be effective for human play (like pure stalkers beating immortals). If they set a hard max APM to something like 600 I think it would develop more useful strategies.