Elon Musk’s OpenAI Dota 2 bot was defeated, eventually

The bot went against Dendi, one of the very best DOTA 2 players out there.

Friday at The International, Valve‘s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the world’s top professional gamers in the video game Dota 2, twice, live at Key Arena.

In a one-on-one match versus Danylo “Dendi” Ishutin and an AI bot, the bot was able to win two matches in what is being hailed as a big win for Musk’s Open AI organization.

Elon Musk is a anxious man and seems to be spending a lot of his time sharing why he believes that Artificial Intelligence could cause a great danger to humans something that most people have disagreed with him such as Facebook founder.

In a streamed video, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman detailed how the bot was able to learn and develop its skills within Dota 2. Available on Android and IOS. They got to witness the next “potential” best player in the world for the first time – an AI bot! The end result was a lot different from what most people expected, as the AI absolutely thrashed the top human players in the world with relative ease.

The use of artificial intelligence has been integral in the gaming industry and was propelled in the era of multiplayer games where users more often like to practice with bots before entering into battle with other human players. Each player chooses from a hundred heroes and hundreds of items. Although it’s an impressive breakthrough, it’s important to note this popular strategy game is usually played as a five-versus-five team game – a rather hard environment for bots to handle. While we’ve seen AI’s dominate in chess for years and more recently the complicated game of Go, it’s now been proved that AI can handle incredibly nuanced games like DotA 2.

“Our bot is trained entirely through self-play”.

The team behind OpenAI plan on extending the bot’s capabilities with the hope it can compete in 5-v-5 matches at Dota 2 tournaments next year.

“We just let it play lifetimes of 1v1 against itself, and coached it on what we thought was good or bad”, Brockman said in a video played before the match.