A Few Thoughts on OpenAi, Dota2, and AI versus humans

Two articles caught my attention today when I woke up. One was the list of 2017 Hugo Award winners (we’ll talk about that some other time). The other was an article from the Verge:

The world’s best Dota 2 players just got destroyed by a killer AI from Elon Musk’s startup by T.C. Sottek Aug 11, 2017, 10:48pm EDT

 

Sottek doesn’t go into much detail, so let me add some context. The OpenAi bot beat  SumaiL, Arteezy, Pajkatt, Fogged and CCnC, and then took on Dendi in a limited 1-1 matchup....