Monday 6 August 2018

A team of former Dota 2 pros just got owned by AI bots


A bot team created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm funded by Elon Musk, obliterated semi-professional players of the online multiplayer video game Dota 2. The firm’s Dota 2 team of bots – OpenAI Five – took on semi-professional players ranked in the 99.95th percentile in the world, and beat them 2-1 in a set of three games. The human players included former Dota 2 professionals and casters Merlini, Fogged, Cap, and Blitz. After winning the first two games comprehensively, OpenAI let the audience pick five human players to compete in the dead rubber match which it lost. This…

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https://ift.tt/2M7tKey Vishwam Sankaran August 06, 2018 at 06:00AM

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