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The world's best Dota 2 players just got destroyed by a killer AI from Elon Musk's startup

• https://www.theverge.com, by T.C. Sottek

Engineers from the nonprofit say the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning, though in that training period they say it amassed "lifetimes" of experience, likely using a neural network judging by the company's prior efforts. Musk is hailing the achievement as the first time artificial intelligence has been able to beat pros in competitive e-sports.

While the demonstration was highly limited to a few variables of gameplay, it was still remarkable to witness crowd-favorite Dota 2 pro Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin get crushed in a live 1-vs-1 match with the bot. Some of the bot's maneuvers looked eerily human. After being defeated by the bot twice, Dendi forfeited future matches with it, and expressed surprise that a bot could outplay a human. He said the bot "feels a little like [a] human, but a little like something else."


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