Al from Facebook Has Defeated By A Solo Programmer Al at Starcraft Tournament

Big companies have recently begun to busily spend millions of dollars on artificial intelligence technology. OpenAI from Elon Musk a few months ago to be a lot of DOTA 2 players after the AI is managed to beat some professional players DOTA 2 ranging from Dendi, Arteezy and Sumail. Facebook does not want to lose, they send their AI to play in the tournament Starcraft: Broodwar who only accept AI to play.
AIIDE (AI for interactive Digital Entertainment) perform the Starcraft: Broodwar tournament every year. The tournament is organized to help AI developments. Starcraft games are considered suitable to help this development process because of the complex and fast gameplay. Players should focus on organizing troops, reliable in taking care of resources and have a quick reaction to master this game. A combination that is very suitable to learn AI compared to other games.

Companies like Facebook and Google often include their AI as a marketting strategy as well as research. For the first experiment, AI from Facebook named CherryPi only able to be in position 6 of 28.
The tournament this year was won by AI under the name ZZZKBot. ZZZKBot is an AI developed by Chris Coxe, a software developer from Australia. Although with one person's capital and not being financed hundreds of millions of dollars, AI from Chris successfully won this year's AI Starcraft tournament with 2465 wins from 2966 matches.

Seeing AI from Facebook is planned to be installed self-learning engine, this failure is not completely detrimental to the Facebook. AI they can now learn many things from other AI and next year if included again in a similar tournament, could be able to shift AI ZZZKBot.

Facebook did not release the bot they used on this Starcraft AI tournament. But if you're interested in fighting AI from Google on Starcraft II, Google and Blizzard release AI Deepmind toolset for gamers to try live.