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Brockman: OpenAI character-prediction model learned state-of-the-art sentiment classification
“At OpenAI, we see this sometimes, for example, we had a paper on this unsupervised learning where you train a language model You train a model to predict the next character in Amazon reviews, and just by learning to predict the next character in Amazon reviews…”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 0:19 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Brockman: Emergent sentiment feature disappears in slightly smaller models
“And that this effect goes away if you use a slightly smaller model.”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 0:52 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Brockman: OpenAI Dota bot lost to Pajkatt due to an unseen wand build
“Well, I, I'd say very, very specifically that kind of the root cause here was that he had gone for an item, an early wand build. And we had just never done item early wand build. And so it's just like our bot had just never seen this particular item build befo…”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 27:36 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Brockman: OpenAI's hybrid bot defeated pro player Arteezy 3-0
“We first played our TZ who showed up on, on our switch bot, you know, kind of the Franken bot. And you know, that beat him three times.”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 41:39 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Brockman: OpenAI Dota bot went undefeated 5-0 against Sumail
“With Sumail, we went undefeated. I, and I think it was five zero that day.”
Greg Brockman Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 48:39 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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