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Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player (theverge.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the first-they-came-for-the-videogamers dept.

An anonymous reader quotes the Verge: Tonight during Valve's yearly Dota 2 tournament, a surprise segment introduced what could be the best new player in the world -- 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 they say it amassed "lifetimes" of experience, likely using a neural network judging by the company's prior efforts. Musk is hailing the achievement as the first time artificial intelligence has been able to beat pros in competitive e-sports... Elon Musk founded OpenAI as a nonprofit venture to prevent AI from destroying the world -- something Musk has been beating the drum about for years.
"Nobody likes being regulated," Musk wrote on Twitter Friday, "but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that's a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too."

Musk also thanked Microsoft on Twitter "for use of their Azure cloud computing platform. This required massive processing power."

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  1. Not AI by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let me repeat: computers playing games is NOT AI. Computers love games. Games have strict rules and limited parameters. Computers love that. Computers excel at that. IT IS NOT AI.

    1. Re:Not AI by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's no "weak AI". It's just AI. AI people can't be blamed for other people constantly moving goalposts ever since the thing was conceptualized half a century ago.

      --
      Ezekiel 23:20
    2. Re:Not AI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just because it's not strong AI doesn't mean it's not AI. And really, this new wave of machine learning is quite a bit more impressive than the "AI" of the 90s that conquered chess. There things were hard coded by humans and possible moves iterated. With this new machine learning AI is "learning" the parameters and rules without human input, just through reinforcement. This is why it is now being used for things like the game Go where iteration is essentially impossible.