Brockman: AI can discover non-obvious strategies that transfer to humans
Greg Brockman · Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator · Nov 8, 2017 · at 48:21
Greg Brockman describes how a human semi-pro player successfully defeated elite Dota 2 pro Arteezy by mimicking a strategy learned from OpenAI's bot.
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“The bot had, like, taught him the strategy that he could use against a human and I think that was, like, very interesting and a good example of the kinds of things that you can get out of these systems, that they can discover these very, sort of, you know, Non-obvious strategies that can actually be taught to humans.”
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