During the yearly DOTA tournament THE INTERNATIONAL , a 1v1 dota was held between , world’s best dota player Dendi and a Bot , which could be the world’s best AI player skilled enough to be better than the pro gamers,
Engineers say the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning, though in that training period they say it amassed “lifetimes” of experience
and so crowd-favorite Dota 2 pro Danylo “Dendi” Ishutin gets crushed in a live 1-vs-1 match with the bot. Some of the bot’s maneuvers looked eerily human. After being defeated by the bot twice, Dendi forfeited future matches with it, and expressed surprise that a bot could outplay a human. He said the bot “feels a little like a human, but a little like something else.”
Dota 2 is an astoundingly complex game in which two teams of 5 players compete to siege and destroy the opposing team’s base. The game features 113 playable heroes who each possess unique abilities, as well as dozens of items that can enhance and extend each hero’s capabilities — meaning the full extent of the game’s possibilities are virtually incomprehensible, at least to a player with human limitations.