IndabaX South Africa – Using MARL to Play StarCraft II

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Continuing the company’s commitment to supporting and building the AI and ML community across Africa following the highly successful IndabaX Tunisia, InstaDeep is also organizing a session as part of IndabaX South Africa 2021.

The South African event will run from 3 September – 26 November, and has been organised as an innovative ‘roadshow’ format of events and competitions, each one hosted by a top South African machine learning lab or company.

 InstaDeep’s session is on 29 October, from 14:00 – 16:00 SAST (South Africa Standard Time), and will be an exciting challenge based on the theme of “Playing Starcraft and Saving the World Using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)”! The two-hour, interactive event will be a step-by-step guide on how to train a team of terran marines to defeat their enemies, controlled by the built-in game AI in StarCraft II.

The InstaDeep IndabaX South Africa Team

Participants will be guided by the highly experienced and talented research engineers from InstaDeep’s Cape Town office: 

  • Arnu Pretorius, AI Research Scientist & Team Lead
  • Kale-ab Tessera, AI Research Engineer
  • Tom Makkink, AI Research Engineer
  • St John Grimbly, AI Research Intern
  • Dries Smit, AI Research Intern
  • Claude Formanek, AI Research Intern

Click here for more details about the session and to register:  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/indabaxsa-instadeep/register