The world’s best Dota 2 players got destroyed by a killer AI. The killer AI was from Elon Musk’s startup.
Last night during Valve’s yearly Dota 2 tournament, through a surprise segment got introduced what could be the best new player in the world — that’s a bot from Elon Musk-backed startup OpenAI. Engineers from the non-profit say that the bot learned much to beat Dota 2 pros in only two weeks of real-time learning, though during that internship period they say it amassed “lifetimes” of experience, seemingly using a neural network judging by the company’s prior exercises. Elon Musk is hailing the achievement as it is the first time that artificial intelligence has been able to beat pros in competitive e-sports.
Though the demonstration was not unlimited to a few variables of gameplay, it was still up to the mark to witness crowd-favorite Dota 2 pro Danylo “Dendi” Ishutin get crushed in a live 1-vs-1 match with the very bot. Some of the bot’s maneuvers were looking eerily human. After being defeated by the bot two times, Dendi forfeited the next matches with it, and expressed excitement that a bot could outplay a human. He says the bot “feels a little like [a] human, but a little like something else.”
Dota 2 is a remarkably complex game in which two teams of 5 players counterfeit siege and destroy the base of the opposition. The game features 113 playable heroes, each hero possesses unique abilities, and dozens of items that can enhance and extend each hero’s abilities — means that the full extent of the game’s possibilities are virtually incomprehensible, at least to a player having human limitations.
Musk founded OpenAI as a nonprofit venture to save AI from destroying the world —that’s the something Elon Musk has been beating the drum about for years. Only last month he told a group of US governors that AI shows a “fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.” Others, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, have been less than impressed by killer robot doomsaying of Elon Musk.
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For now, at least, killer AI is likely to be limited to parlor tricks at e-sports tournaments. The OpenAI team’s greater plan is to extend its Dota 2 bot’s capabilities into something that can encounter across the full game in a 5-vs-5 match by next year’s tournament.
