Now AI is beating humans at Dota 2 as well

By David Nield

We’ve already seen artificial intelligence systems trounce human beings at the ancient board game Go, and now computers are winning at multiplayer video games too – the OpenAI engine backed by Elon Musk has been beating the best Dota 2 players in the world championships in the US.

The AI took on three of the best Dota 2 players on the planet and beat them all, having learned the game from scratch through playing itself over and over again and working out the best way forward in any given situation.

According to its makers, the AI bots aren’t any better than an average human Dota 2 player in terms of actions-per-minute, but it’s the smart choices that the software makes that give it the edge – it can predict where other players will move and improvise new approaches when it gets into tight situations.

“This is a step towards building AI systems which accomplish well-defined goals in messy, complicated situations involving real humans,” say the OpenAI engineers. Ultimately the goal is not to win video games but to excel in making choices in the real world.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming