{"id":71885,"date":"2017-08-12T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-worlds-best-dota-2-players-just-got-destroyed-by-a-killer-ai-from-elon-musks-startup"},"modified":"2017-08-12T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:22:28","slug":"the-worlds-best-dota-2-players-just-got-destroyed-by-a-killer-ai-from-elon-musks-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-worlds-best-dota-2-players-just-got-destroyed-by-a-killer-ai-from-elon-musks-startup","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s best Dota 2 players just got destroyed by a killer AI from Elon Musk\u2019s startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l92J1UvHf6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight during Valve\u2019s yearly <em>Dota 2<\/em> tournament, a surprise segment introduced what could be the best new player in the world \u2014 a bot from Elon Musk-backed startup OpenAI. Engineers from the nonprofit say the bot learned enough to beat <em>Dota 2 <\/em>pros in just two weeks of real-time learning, though in that training period they say it amassed \u201clifetimes\u201d of experience, likely using a neural network judging by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/16\/15648158\/openai-elon-musk-robotics-ai-one-shot-imitation-learning\">company\u2019s prior efforts<\/a>. Musk is hailing the achievement as the first time artificial intelligence has been able to beat pros in competitive e-sports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/11\/16137388\/dota-2-dendi-open-ai-elon-musk\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/11\/16137388\/dota-2-dendi-open-ai-elon-musk<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight during Valve\u2019s yearly Dota 2 tournament, a surprise segment introduced what could be the best new player in the world \u2014 a bot from Elon Musk-backed startup OpenAI. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}