Artificial intelligence applications have gone head-to-head with humans in a lot of scenarios over the past few years and the latest application has seen esports players take the latest loss. An artificial intelligence application beat a top player in the multiplayer online game Dota 2. At The International championship in Seattle earlier this week, a program developed by firm OpenAI managed to beat top Dota 2 player Danil Ishutin, better known as Dendi, in a series of 1 vs. 1 matches. During the first match, the bot took the victory after Ishutin and it traded kills and blows. But after taking an early lead in the next round, Ishutin forfeited the match and gave the bot the final win. For OpenAI, Dendi was also the latest major player the bot managed to take down.

See the Hacker News Discussion for additional context. When I read today's news about OpenAI's DotA 2 bot beating human players at The International, an eSports tournament with a prize pool of over $24M, I was jumping with excitement. For one, I am a big eSports fan. I have never played DotA 2, but I regularly watch other eSports competitions on Twitch and even played semi-professionally when I was in high school. But more importantly, multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games like DotA and real-time strategy (RTS) games like Starcraft 2, are seen as being way beyond the capabilities of current Artificial Intelligence techniques.

Waring against the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said that people should be more concerned with it than the risk posed by escalating tensions with North Korea, the media reported. "If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Musk's comments were in reference to his non-profit start-up, OpenAI, defeating several of the world's best players at a video game, reports The Hill magazine. OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports.

DEEPMIND, the Alphabet Inc-owned artificial intelligence (AI) company best known for creating software capable of beating the world's best players at the strategy game Go, has targeted the science fiction video game Starcraft II as its next big research milestone.

Artificial intelligence took a step forward last night, at an annual tournament for players of the tactical wargame Defense of the Ancients 2. A bot created by the Elon Musk-backed nonprofit OpenAI defeated champion human player Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin in two back to back demonstration matches. Musk hailed the achievement on Twitter, saying that it was a significant advance over what AI had accomplished in more traditional games. OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports. Vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go. Defense of the Ancients 2 – commonly referred to as DOTA 2 – is what's known as a multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA.

The result is an AI that not only has the fundamentals nailed down, but understands the nuances that take human players a long time to master. It's adept at tricks like zoning (preventing the enemy from hitting your creeps to deny them experience and gold) and raze faking (starting a raze animation to trick an enemy into dodging a non-existent attack). While its actions per minute aren't any better than that of an average flesh-and-bone player, the choices make a huge difference. And it doesn't take too long to learn, either; OpenAI's creation can beat regular Dota 2 bots after an hour of learning, and beat the best humans after just two weeks. Of course, these victories came about under controlled, ideal conditions.

The billionaire says his artificial intelligence research startup OpenAI has developed the first bot to beat a professional esports gamer. Musk used the news to send out a warning about AI safety, saying the industry should be regulated and is more of a threat than North Korea.

"If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea," Musk tweeted after his $1 billion startup, OpenAI, made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament Friday night, beating the world's best players in the video game, "Dota 2." Musk claimed OpenAI's bot was the first to beat the world's best players in competitive eSports, but quickly warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence like OpenAI's bot -- which learned by playing a "thousand lifetimes" of matches against itself -- would eventually need to be reined in for our own safety. "Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that's a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too," Musk said in another tweet on Friday night. Musk has previously expressed a healthy mistrust of artificial intelligence.

An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world's top Dota 2 players in single combat today.

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. OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports. Vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go.