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Sidor: OpenAI's RL bot beat its hand-coded bot after one to two weeks
“So I leave, there is nothing, I come back, there is this reinforcement learning bot, and actually, it's beating our scripted bot after, like a week worth of engineering effort. Possibly it was two weeks, but it was something very miniature compared to the deve…”
Szymon Sidor Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 18:51 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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OpenAI Dota bot learned baiting behavior without explicit reward incentives
“It was like one of the major examples, one of the major examples of the things that we kind of didn't have explicit incentive for, and yet the bot actually learned them.”
Szymon Sidor Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 38:46 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Sidor: OpenAI ran 50-computer LAN party where humans found bot exploits
“There was a point after the event where we set up this big LAN party where we had, like, 50 computers running the bot. We kind of unleashed this swarm of humans to kind of add our bot. And they find, found all the exploits”
Szymon Sidor Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 29:19 Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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