Professor with 30 years of StarCraft clashes with Google researcher over whether StarCraft is an AGI benchmark
Kangwook_Lee · x · 2026-09-26
A spat over an AI system's StarCraft performance: Google's syhw argues it can't be an AGI benchmark — "you'd say it's cheating because it doesn't have to move the screen... then it'd need to eat, drink, sleep?" — while UW-Madison professor Kangwook Lee, who says he's played StarCraft for 30 years more competitively than syhw, mocks the goalpost-moving.
A classic AI benchmark fight: can game performance count as evidence of general intelligence?
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