Revenge of the Nerds! Humans Beat Bots at Dota 2 International

Last August at the Dota 2 International tournament in Seattle, OpenAI introduced an AI bot that upset the world's top 1v1 human player. The San Francisco-based AI research institute is now at the International 2018 in Vancouver, where their team of state-of-the-art bots is battling professional human teams in a highly anticipated best-of-three 5v5 Dota 2 showdown. Alas, the humans drew first blood: In a match that would make John Connor proud, Brazilian pro team "paiN" dispatched the "OpenAI Five" Bots yesterday in 52 minutes. OpenAI Five had more kills and a slight economy edge in the midgame, but did not push their advantage and kept losing their towers. The smart bots also made some dumb moves, such as warding in the wrong positions, bad item choice, and fewer gankings (leaving your lane to kill an enemy Hero in another lane).