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Re:OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video] by dna_polymerase on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:19AM (#17827441)
That's what you would tell human players, yes. That's what a trainer would tell you after looking at your gameplay. That's what you would then try to improve.

BUT!!

This is AI, so what OpenAI needs to improve on, if anything, may be the ability to tell this stuff directly to the AI so it could skip hours of play.

Also, maybe our view is too limited and the AI actually learns even better strategies from competitive self-play. Strategies our human way of improving would miss.

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Re:OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video] by FartyMcFarter on Friday August 24, 2018 @02:08AM (#17833099)
> Also, maybe our view is too limited and the AI actually learns even better strategies from competitive self-play. Strategies our human way of improving would miss.

This is generally a good point, but in this specific case we can see that no such strategies showed up. The bots did terrible, obviously bad things (like stacking wards in bad places on top of each other or having a weak support hero take the aegis). More importantly, they didn't win.

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