An anonymous reader shares a report: Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics to drug discovery. But while firms including OpenAI and Alphabet’s DeepMind have investigated its efficacy in video games like Dota 2, Quake III Arena, and StarCraft 2, few to date have…
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Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI To Develop AI Technologies on Azure
Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. From a report: In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will support the development…
‘We Will Win:’ OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ Team Is Crushing Humans Online, But Players Are Not Giving Up
‘The bots are locked. They are not learning, but we humans are. We will win.’Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzaeg/we-will-win-openais-dota-2-team-is-crushing-humans-online-but-players-are-not-giving-up…
One of the Biggest Games in the World Is a Mod of a Mod
Dota 2, like most video games, has you play the hero. Dota Auto Chess, a wildly popular mod of Dota 2, reimagines you as the head coach or general manager for a team of heroes. It features the same cast of characters—a dragon knight, a druid—but now you’re deciding whether you have money to put… Continue reading One of the Biggest Games in the World Is a Mod of a Mod