This is quite an interesting article about Artificial Intelligence researchers creating an AI (the Overmind) to play a realtime strategy game, StarCraft. They go into a fair bit of detail about some of the challenges they faced and some strategies that they were able to use as an AI that wouldn’t be practical for a human to employ.

From: Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition.