OpenAI’s bots just thrashed some of the world’s best Dota players

“We estimate the probably of winning to be above 95%”, said OpenAI’s Dota 2 bots at the start of their second game against extremely skilled humans. I knew they’d been trained up using a sophisticated reinforcement learning technique that had instilled them with millenia worth of experience. I didn’t know they’d been versed in trash talk.

It seems they had training time to spare, because they handily won two out of three games at the “OpenAI Five Benchmark” yesterday. This was the robo-team’s first outing against non-amateur players, in preparation for the show match they’ll play at the International 2018. There, they’ll face off against the best players in the world. The bots won their first game here in 14 minutes, so I don’t fancy humanity’s chances.

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