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ladies and gentlemen welcome to the open

ai-5 finals

[Music]

we’re gonna start off by talking a

little bit about the project obviously

main attraction will be opening I five

playing against OG but we also have a

couple of surprises after that so make

sure you stick around for that as well

and I of course will not be doing that

alone I am Shiva dream Vander Heiden

your host but I’m joined right now with

blitz and purge guys how are you doing

I’m great really happy to be here I love

the set it’s nice and beautiful and

colorful

yeah and happy that something people can

be here in the arena right yes dude

that’s better than most LAN event crowds

today we’re gonna obviously talk about

dota 2 you guys we’re gonna also talk to

some of the opening hi guys and girls

actually about the project and

everything that we’re going to see today

but before that before anything else I’d

like to give the stage to a Greg Buckman

who is the chairman and CTO of open AI

all right welcome everyone all right

who’s excited about today yeah

this is a historic moment it’s going to

be the first time that an AI has even

attempted to play the world champions in

an eSports game Oh G is just on another

level relative to any other team that

we’ve played and so the truth is we

don’t know what’s going to happen either

win or lose if these were going to be

games to remember and you know open a

high five and deep mines very impressive

Starcraft but have all beaten good pros

privately but no one’s ever seen this

happen live so if we’re lucky today

it’ll be the first time anyone’s got to

see that - but this event it’s really

about something bigger than who wins and

who loses it’s about letting people

connect with a strange exotic but still

somehow very tangible intelligences that

are produced by today’s rapidly

progressing AI technology you know we’re

we’ve all grown used to computer

programs which are coded by a human

programmer you do one thing that person

didn’t anticipate the program breaks so

we think of our machine of our computers

as these unthinking machines they can’t

innovate they can’t be creative they

can’t truly understand but in order to

play dota you kind of need to do all

those things so we had to do something

different

open a hive is powered by deep

reinforcement learning which means that

we didn’t code in how to play dota we

coded in how to learn five tries out

random actions it learns from a reward

or a punishment and then it’s ten months

of existence it’s now played over 45,000

years yep that was 45,000 years of dota

gameplay it’s a lot it has a grown board

yet

and the play style you’re going to see

today it’s truly its own eye that you

know everything you see it’s truly

creative it’s been dreamed up by a

computer

and so from fives perspective today’s

games are going to be its first

encounter with an alien intelligence no

offense to og

but the beauty of this technology really

is that our learning code doesn’t even

know it’s meant for dota and that means

that it’s very general purpose and it

has this amazing potential to benefit

our lives

last year we use it to control robot

hand that just no one could program and

we expect to see similar technology and

new interactive systems from elderly

care of robots to creative assistants to

other systems that we can’t even imagine

today now this is going to be the final

public event for open and i-5 as you

might guess from the the name of the

event but we expect we’re going to do

other dota projects in the future now I

really want to thank the incredible team

at open AI ever and who worked check

check check

all right everyone who worked directly

on the project or cheered us on I want

to sect those reported the project which

is valve Google cloud Microsoft Azure

dozens of test teams today’s casters and

yes all the cast commenters on reddit

and I really want to give NASA thanks

today to our special guests oh gee who

have taken time out of their tournament

schedule to be here

so please enjoy the show and just keep

in mind no matter how surprised the a

eyes are to us know that we’re going to

be even more surprising to them all

right let’s do it

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