Robots can outwit us on the virtual battlefield, so let's not put them in charge of the real thing
- Written by Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61

Artificial intelligence developer DeepMind has just announced its latest milestone: a bot called AlphaStar that plays the popular real-time strategy game StarCraft II at Grandmaster level.
This isn’t the first time a bot...