From PC Mag: Artificial intelligence developed by the Elon Musk-backed OpenAI bested human players this weekend at The International, an annual Dota 2 championship.
While that might not sound too impressive on its face—we've seen Google-developed AI beat Go players—Dota 2 is "vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go," Musk tweeted.
"Dota's a great testbed for artificial intelligence; it's a very complicated game with a large competitive scene," OpenAI co-founder and CTO Greg Brockman said in a video explaining the project (below). "The rules of Dota are so complicated [that] if you just think really hard about how the game works and try to write those rules down, you're not even going to be able to reach the performance of a reasonable player."
OpenAI has been hard at work on a bot capable of beating top professional players at Dota 1v1. On Friday, it was showcased at The International, a huge event hosted by Valve that draws 20,000 fans and players competing for $24 million in prizes.
The OpenAI bot went up against Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin in rather dramatic fashion, and handily beat the pro player twice before Ishutin bowed out.
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