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Elon Musk’s A.I. Beats Top E-Sports Players At DOTA 2
The rise of artificial intelligence has been a real phenomenon over the last few years, and this latest AI developed by OpenAI, a team funded by Elon Musk himself, shows how far ahead the technology has come. During the recent DOTA 2 Internationals, the team brought out to the stage the AI and pitted it against Dendi, a top DOTA 2 pro-player. Over the course of the match, the AI adapted to his play-style and executed complex maneuvers, eventually beating the pros at their own game. What’s impressive about this is that it’s not the same as a bot in the game beating the player. Bots are designed specifically for the game, and behave in predictable ways. AI learns and then applies what it has learned in the most efficient manner. OpenAI’s AI was given the game just two weeks...
Elon Musk Recommends Overwatch, But Says Storytelling is Neglected These Days
You might know Elon Musk as the incredibly wealthy genius behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors, but he also seems to know his stuff when it comes to video games. Speaking to Y Combinator about his video game recommendations, this might not be evident, as the only game that seems to come to his mind is Overwatch. He praises Blizzard in general and eventually adds that his kids play a lot of Hearthstone. Then, someone mentions The Last of Us, and the conversation turns to how storytelling can be neglected in games these days, and that’s when Elon Musk weighs in his opinion. “I think storytelling in games is really neglected. That’s the criticism I heard of the latest Deus Ex, that the storytelling is kind of lame. Whereas the prior Deus Ex, and the original Deus Ex, the storytel...