Bots decimate Humans in the OpenAI

exhibition match
Posted by Hitanshu "Anomalina" Budhwani 1 day, 12 hours ago

The OpenAI Five team made a fantastic display of their intimidating

strength in the show-match today against some of the best players
in the world, including a Major-winning professional player, to come
out on top with a clean 2:0 victory.
As part of the Five Benchmark being conducted to test their strength, the
OpenAI bots competed against a team of highly skilled humans who fall in the
99.95th percentile of all players in the world. The team consisted of high-
ranked, popular analysts and casters from the English-speaking community of
Dota namely Blitz, Capitalist, Fogged, and Merlini. Some of them have also
had a brief stint in the professional scene in the past. Joining them was none
other than two-time Major winner David "MoonMeander" Tan who currently
plays for compLexity Gaming.
The event started off with the audience match as a sort of warmup for the
OpenAI Five before the big match. The result was surprising for most of the
 audience new to witnessing these bots in action. They completely annihilated
the amateurs by taking down two lanes of barracks in just about 13 minutes,
an astonishing feat. Clearly, the human team had no chance of turning the
game around and called the 'gg'.

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

6 Aug
Replying to @gdb
All players on stage!! pic.twitter.com/fAyL6PJHdX

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

Revealed: OpenAI Five now supports drafting. Adds a new layer of

dynamism to the game! Very excited to see how these top 99.95th
percentile players handle it.
3:41 AM - Aug 6, 2018

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Several of the restrictions applied on the bots had been removed prior to the
showdown. However, the restrictions of an 18 hero pool, no bottle, and no
Divine Rapier stayed. Also, each player on both teams had a personal courier
of their own.
 Game 1 started very well for the bots right from the start. They used their
advantage from the laning phase to push down towers as a force of five very
quickly. Without feeling the need to go Roshan and collect the Aegis, they
took down the first lane of barracks very early in the game. Capable of
making close-to-perfect decisions on the spot, they were able to punish any
hero that stepped even a little out of their safe zone and capitalized on
potential kills.

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

6 Aug
Replying to @gdb
12-36 kills, 11k gold advantage at 24 mins.

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

Humans call gg for game 2!!!! OpenAI Five has won a best of three vs
top 99.95th percentile of Dota players. Extremely good play by the
human team. Our system is ready to take on the top professionals at
The International later this month.
5:05 AM - Aug 6, 2018

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 Game 2 was much closer, with more favorable odds for the humans at
several points in the game. Team Humans managed to get more kills, but also
did not avoid feeding some of their own every time. Eventually, the net-worth
advantage for the bots racked up once again, and they were able to take
down lane after lane of barracks with their incredible sustainability.
The humans held on to the bitter end, till the very last lane of barracks had
been destroyed and they had no buybacks to spare. They called the 'gg' to
concede their second game in a row and the series as a whole.
For the sake of the audience and over 70,000 people watching on the live
stream, the organizers decided to play the third match anyway. This time, the
OpenAI team were so confident that they allowed the audience members and
viewers in the chat to decide the heroes for the OpenAI Five lineup. With a
greedy, all-core draft chosen deliberately to put them at a disadvantage, the
bots fought long and hard. However, the odds were against them, as they
continued to state in all-chat, which were the lowest they had encountered
against any human lineup they had faced before.
Fortunately, the human team was able to leave with some dignity at having
beaten the OpenAI bots in the third match, despite losing the series overall.

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

6 Aug
Replying to @gdb
Humans are about to take their second barracks. Humans up on kills at 49-22,
up by 30k net worth.

Greg Brockman
✔@gdb

And that’s game!!!!! Humans win game 3! Congratulations to

@Blitz_DotA and friends!!!!
6:23 AM - Aug 6, 2018

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There were many interesting questions asked before and after the show-
match to the various programmers and employees working for OpenAI. It was
stated that the purpose of the bots was not simply to defeat players at the
game of Dota 2, but to help design AI that can be applied to solving real-
world problems. This is why Dota 2 was selected as the game of choice due
to its complexity, limited information perception and requirement of
teamwork.
Furthermore, as shown in the video below, it was revealed that the same
form of AI used for playing Dota 2 was used to control a robotic arm to
imitate human movements. This is a revelation in the field, as few have been
able to achieve what this open-source project has been able to accomplish
with the help of AI. It marks an exciting time in the development of this field
and makes us wonder what more is in store for us in the future.