Feature Artificial Intelligence

AI can learn real-world skills from playing StarCraft and Minecraft

Virtual gaming worlds are good test-beds for exploring, responding and adapting

Artificial intelligence gaming illustration

AI AT PLAY  Algorithms that play video games can pick up all kinds of skills.

Walter Newton

By Maria Temming

- More than 2 years ago

Dario Wünsch was feeling confident. The 28-year-old from Leipzig, Germany, was about to become the first professional gamer to take on the artificial intelligence program AlphaStar in the rapid-fire video game StarCraft II.