Starcraft AI blog

In the last couple days there have been a lot of Koreans on the SSCAIT stream chat. The total number of viewers zoomed up. I guess SSCAIT suddenly got publicity in South Korea.

My impression is that since the AlphaGo shock, AI is hot in Korea. I get the idea that it’s at both the grassroots level, “hey, this is cool,” and at corporate and government decision levels, “we need a strategy so we don’t fall behind in the tech race.”

So I hope that we get some new Korean bots this year! Of course a strong player community is very different from a strong bot community, but still, doesn’t it seem that there should be some feedthrough? In any case, I think the interest is there, and that’s what counts.

Update: As LetaBot mentions in comments, some spectators were brought in on Friday by a post on the Factorio game site (scroll down).