Comment by bbor
2 years ago
That’s interesting you put the date at 2010! When I learned machine learning in ~2016-2018, markov chains were THE fundamental problem tool of NLP still. Neural networks were all the rage ofc, but still… could you tell me what tech/change you’re thinking of?
For example, I remember /r/SubredditSimulator blowing my mind, and I’m pretty sure that was markov chains
Yeah, my bad, I took a guess here, from what I remember about when neural networks became the hot buzzword (again, after the 1970's Perceptron ?) - sounds like I missed, since the transition was slower than I thought ?
P.S.: "2010" was probably from this great Ars Technica article :
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/01/skynet-meets-the-swar...
It's not clear to me whether neural networks were already involved (though there's already some self-learning there), you can see a few Ars and YouTube comments mentioning them, though "genetic algorithms" seems to also have been a popular buzzword ?
P.P.S.: This is about StarCraft 1 (ONE), not to be confused with DeepMind's Alpha Star wiping the floor with a pro StarCraft 2 (TWO) player in 2018.