Brockman: OpenAI stitched two bots together hours before facing Dota pros
Greg Brockman · Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator · Nov 8, 2017 · at 40:02
OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman recounts an emergency hotfix where the team stitched an older bot model to a newer model to bypass an opening-wave bug before facing elite pros.
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“Monday bot, it is pretty good at the first wave. This new bot is a super bot thereafter. ... So we wrote, so, so we already, we had some code for doing something similar. So we kind of revived that. And then in the three hours, Jay spent his time doing a very careful stitch where you run the first bot and then you cut over at the right time to the second bot.”
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