[ionforce]

Everything about AlphaStar is typed and discrete. It has perfect inputs because it uses an API (and does not read pixel data).

Human limitations that AlphaStar shares:

- Data that requires the camera to see (e.g. enemy location, enemy HP)

- Inability to examine/target cloaked units

Possibly unfair, super-human things AlphaStar has access to:

- Instantaneous awareness of cloaked units

- Knowledge of things humans need to infer/click (e.g. upgrades)

- Global map awareness of unit positions (taking into account fog of war)

Definitely unfair:

- Can select arbitrary collections of units, including outside of camera view

[callmekit]

Do you know if it can target a particular unit from a clump of air units? If yes, then there is another "unfair" thing.

Also I wonder how their "camera-like interface" works with tactics like fly a building above units to make them harder to target.

[ionforce]

Yeah. I think watching it split a line of Stalkers into two flanks that isn't done with a rectangular selection is crazy unfair.

I think you're saying does it suffer from occlusion during selection. Based on how APIs typically work, I would say no it does not. So yeah that's another thing humans can't do. AlphaStar could hypothetically stack units into a singular mass and it would be discretely untargetable by human players.