It happened with Chess and Go, and it finally happened with eSports. Elon Musk-backed Artificial Intelligence company “OpenAI” just used a bot to wallop the best DOTA2 players in the world. To be honest, it wasn’t even close. Instead of trying to program the perfect bot, OpenAI just created a bot that learned through trial and error. Over the course of playing thousands of games against itself, the bot kept the behaviors that lead to victory and shed the ones that got it killed. In just 6 months, it was better than the humans that had spent a lifetime building their skills.
Elon Musk didn’t simply want to wreck a bunch of gamers, though. OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, who is trying to discover and enact the path to safe artificial general intelligence. His master plan was to help raise awareness that A.I. needs to be thoughtfully regulated before it makes the jump from computer games to real life and takes the human race to the cleaners. Okay, that was pretty alarmist, but you get the point, right?
jebaixlsuebqkd on October 20th, 2017 at 06:36 UTC »
Elon Musk backs OpenAI but I don't think he personally wrote the bot that beat the gamers. If I was in that research group, I would be pretty pissed if the bot my team wrote became Elon Musk's bot.
SquidCap on October 20th, 2017 at 05:13 UTC »
Quite often, once we have written something, it is best to go back and just delete every "just".
DystopianImperative on October 20th, 2017 at 01:26 UTC »
Is this that A.I. that had full access to the game? As in it literally knew exactly where the player was? Or is this another one? Also how did they get over that hurdle of that earlier A.I. ? The one that figured out the best way to survive in the game was to just sit in base.