Comment by BlueTemplar

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.