August 2017

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Dota 2

OpenAI demonstrated a major AI capability milestone: an agent learning complex, multi-agent competitive strategy from scratch through self-play alone. This proves reinforcement learning can scale to human-level performance in adversarial, real-time environments—a foundational step toward goal-oriented AI systems that operate in messy, unstructured domains.

Why it ranks · · Bot defeats world-class Dota 2 professionals in 1v1 tournament-standard matches · August 2017

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