https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzaeg/we-will-win-openais-dota-2-team-is-crushing-humans-online-but-players-are-not-giving-up

OpenAI’s team of Dota 2 bots are taking on a much larger opponent after beating the pro team OG, which won more than $11 million at Dota 2’s high-profile tournament called The International 2018. From April 18 to 21, OpenAI Five will face the internet. OpenAI, a technology non-profit founded by Elon Musk and others, is allowing any Dota 2 player to attempt to beat OpenAI Five. And just hours after the test began, human players have started winning.

We’ve seen AI-powered bots play—and beat—professional players before. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar have defeated professional video game players, but never in live-streamed matches. Last week’s match against OG was the first time one of these AI wins has happened live. Now, we can watch OpenAI Five face a massive number of human teams in real-time. At the time of writing, eight teams have beaten OpenAI Five, giving the AI roster a 1,800-8 win/loss record, which adds up to a 99.5 percent win-rate for the bots. (One of the wins is currently under investigation; the leaderboard recorded the win from just a single player in just seven minutes.) Of course, there are 1,602 in-progress games going on at the moment, too. With information gained from the sheer number of matches played, human players are learning how to exploit OpenAI Five’s weaknesses.