The International is a huge esports event.
When AI research company's OpenAI's team of bots first defeated a teams of puny humans at the video game Dota 2 in June, Bill Gates hailed it as a "milestone." However, when pitched against professional players, the bots were defeated - at least in an initial match.
OpenAI, which was cofounded by the famously AI-fearful Elon Musk, created the five neural networks called OpenAI Five with the intention of building an AI which could learn to cooperate with each other and defeat human players. The AI trains itself by playing 180 years' worth of games against itself every day.
🔹 The bots are a lot less aggressive than before. They feel worse than the previous exhibition, I think (but still, amazing).
🔹 The bots are still very good at moment-to-moment, but they seem bad at macro-level decisions. I have more to say on this!
OpenAI's cofounder and CTO Greg Brockman praised both team's performances in a tweet.