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The real danger of AI may be that it takes all the fun out of life A bot stole the show at The International Dota 2 Championship. Developed using OpenAI on Microsoft Azure and the specially designed bot got good by playing itself thousands of times instead of analyzing champion gamers, which is kind of interesting. It suggests that machines ...

Kathleen Maher

The real danger of AI may be that it takes all the fun out of life A bot stole the show at The International Dota 2 Championship. Developed using OpenAI on Microsoft Azure and the specially designed bot got good by playing itself thousands of times instead of analyzing champion gamers, which is kind of interesting. It suggests that machines can come at problems from a completely different direction and outperform humans. In this case, the bot beat Danylo “Dendi” Ishutin who lost the first round, forfeited a second round, and refused to play the third. In fact, the bot
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