Elon Musk’s team of robots learns at a super fast rate and trains by playing 180 years worth of games in a day
Team of AI bots will compete at Dota 2’s world championship in August
By Ethan Rakin
When top teams eventually compete at one of the biggest e-sports events of the year – Dota 2’s world championship “The International” – some of them will be facing a very different opposition than what they’re used to: a team of artificial intelligence (AI) bots.
The team, which is made of five neural networks dubbed the “OpenAI Five”, actually plays about 180 years worth of games in a day to learn and improve.
OpenAI challenged individual players last year in an one-on-one mini game, and now it will be moving on to team-based games; which introduces a whole new set of challenges when trying to teach AI the little tricks and intricacies that these games tend to possess.
Dota 2 is a real-time complex strategy game played between two teams of five players, with each player controlling a character called a “hero”.