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Slashdot: Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player

Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player
Published on August 12, 2017 at 04:34PM
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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