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posted by martyb on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly

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And it wasn't even close.

A month and a half ago, OpenAI showed off the latest iteration of its Dota 2 bots, which had matured to the point of playing and winning a full five-on-five game against human opponents. Those artificial intelligence agents learned everything by themselves, exploring and experimenting on the complex Dota playing field at a learning rate of 180 years per day. [...] the so-called OpenAI Five truly earned their credibility by defeating a team of four pro players and one Dota 2 commentator in a best-of-three series of games.

There were a few conditions to make the game manageable for the AI, such as a narrower pool of 18 Dota heroes to choose from (instead of the full 100+) and item delivery couriers that are invincible. But those simplifications did little to detract from just how impressive an achievement today's win was.

[...] play-by-play commentator Austin "Capitalist" Walsh sums up the despondency felt by Team Human after the bout neatly:

Never felt more useless in my life but we're having fun at least so I think we're winning in spirit.

Sure aren't winning in-game

— Cap (@DotACapitalist) August 5, 2018

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/6/17655086/dota2-openai-bots-professional-gaming-ai

Dota 2 is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients (DotA).

Previously: OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout
OpenAI to Face Off Against Top Dota 2 Players in 5v5 Match-ups


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  • (Score: 2) by snufu on Friday August 10 2018, @02:08AM (3 children)

    by snufu (5855) on Friday August 10 2018, @02:08AM (#719742)

    For every example of a first time occurrence of AI being able to do something better than humans, we are reminded of numerous examples of trivial human tasks where the field of AI is no where near solving.

    What are some games that will not fall to AI for some time?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 10 2018, @03:44AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday August 10 2018, @03:44AM (#719772) Journal

    1. AI != robot. There are mechanical engineering challenges, not just programming/machine learning challenges, involved that make it harder for robots to perform human-like movements.
    2. Robots can fold towels [youtube.com]. Just not that fast. If you're referring to the Dota AI, I'm not sure why we would want a single AI to compete both in Dota and clothes folding competitions at this time. Maybe later when we start talking strong AI.
    3. Here are some other games:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity#Complexities_of_some_well-known_games [wikipedia.org]
    https://senseis.xmp.net/?OtherGamesConsideredUnprogrammable [xmp.net]
    https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/7m9hhj/games_harder_than_go/ [reddit.com]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect6 [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @10:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10 2018, @10:01AM (#719848)

    What are some games that will not fall to AI for some time?

    Dodgeball

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 10 2018, @09:15PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday August 10 2018, @09:15PM (#720072) Journal

    Understanding women?

    That's a game i regularly fail at, but like a trooper i get back up, dust myself off and try try try.
    I love my wife, but she DOES NOT come from the planet Vulcan.

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