{"id":119908,"date":"2017-08-14T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119908"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:52:48","slug":"openai-takes-on-professional-dota-2-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/119908-openai-takes-on-professional-dota-2-players","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI takes on professional Dota 2 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s OpenAI project has created an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/the-international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI bot to play Dota 2<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AI was shown off at the International 2017, where it played a 1v1 match against professional player Danylo \u201cDendi\u201d Ishutin.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition match saw the AI beat Dendi twice, before the human player forfeited future matches against the bot.<\/p>\n<p>While the bot\u2019s gameplay in a 1v1 mid-only match was impressive, a traditional game of Dota 2 is more complex \u2013 with two teams of five playing against each other.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s bot also defeated a number of other professional Dota 2 players prior to its public 1v1 match, including Artour \u201cArteezy\u201d Babaev and Syed \u201cSumaiL\u201d Sumail.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wiOopO9jTZw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/224298-elon-musks-ai-beats-the-worlds-best-dota-2-players.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/223674-neurable-creates-first-brain-computer-interface-for-htc-vive.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Neurable creates first brain-computer interface for HTC Vive<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s OpenAI project has created an\u00a0AI bot to play Dota 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":108215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6987,2218,24926],"class_list":["post-119908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-dota-2","tag-the-international-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}