An advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system defeated the best human players in StarCraft II, a popular real-time strategy game. In a virtual ecosystem, players compete for habitats and resources, unintentionally reproducing many ecological phenomena. We propose to repurpose this AI to test ecological hypotheses that have been intractable using traditional approaches.

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人工智能通过视频游戏意外学习的生态。

先进的人工智能（AI）系统击败了流行的实时策略游戏《星际争霸II》中最好的人类玩家。在虚拟的生态系统中，玩家争夺栖息地和资源，无意间复制了许多生态现象。我们建议重新设置该AI的用途，以测试使用传统方法难以处理的生态假设。