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High-Five for OpenAI: AI Defeats Semi-Pro Dota2 Players

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OpenAI Five have defeated semi-professional players in Dota2 game. Unlike Go, Dota2 has far more complex rules, pseudo-3D gaming, very rich graphics. It’s as close to open-world except that map is fixed but large requiring hours of play to get to end. This is quite a milestone!

To get the taste of complex rules in Dota2 watch this:

. And that’s just really Dota 101.

Folks in research side of world may not realize how big deal Dota2 professional gaming is. Here’s how professional video gaming looks like:

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