{"id":92599,"date":"2019-06-24T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-2"},"modified":"2019-06-24T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:02:23","slug":"ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-2","title":{"rendered":"AI trained on 3500 years of games finally beats humans at Dota 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-22.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Timothy Revell<\/p>\n<p>They say 10,000 hours makes an expert, but for video-game playing AIs much more is needed. After playing thousands of years\u2019 worth of the video game Dota 2, artificial intelligence is now able to beat the world\u2019s top amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>Dota 2 is a multiplayer battle arena game. Two teams of five take on each other across a large map, defending their own base whilst trying to attack their opponents. It is the game that has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22329824-400-esports-live-from-the-worlds-biggest-esports-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">largest prize money of any e-sport<\/a>, so there are many professional players able to play at a very high level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Timothy Revell They say 10,000 hours makes an expert, but for video-game playing AIs much more is needed. After playing thousands of years\u2019 worth of the video game Dota 2, artificial intelligence is now able to beat the world\u2019s top amateurs. Dota 2 is a multiplayer battle arena game. Two teams of five take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92599","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}