OpenAI’s Long Pursuit of Dota 2 Mastery
Sep 5, 2018 · 11 min read

A hearty round of applause arose from the crowd packing the Vancouver Rogers Centre on August 22 when a team of unassuming scientists wearing “OpenAI” T-shirts climbed up on stage. They had come to Canada to pit their artificial intelligent bots against professional human players in a highly anticipated, world-first 5v5 showdown in one of the world’s most complex video games ever, Dota 2.


