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Its APM maxed out at 1500apm which is far more than any normal human.

That's instantaneous APM, not general APM over the course of the game. The human player's instantaneous APM went well past 1000 at certain moments during the course of the matches, too. All that means is a few clicks as fast as possible.

Yes, but individual perfect micro of 50 blink stalkers is beyond the capability of any pro, whereas I can spam-create Zerg units by holding down a key and have higher APM for a split-second, and I'm just a garbage diamond player.

You can't compare the two. No human can do 1000 meaningful actions per-minute. Even when a human is doing 400apm, probably 100 of those are meaningless spam clicks. All of AlphaStar's actions are meaningful actions.

So when AlphaStar is doing 1000-1500 APM, there's no way a human could do that or compete with that. This doesn't impress me because it's obvious if you create something that can do something way faster than a human it will win.

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