
Pro gamers, look out — for the first time ever, a world champion e-sports team has lost to an AI team.
In a series of live competitions between the reigning Dota 2 world champion team OG and the five-bot team OpenAI Five, the AI won two matches back-to-back, settling the best-of-three tournament. With 45,000 years of practice at Dota 2 under its belt, the system looked unstoppable — deftly navigating strategic decisions and racing to press its advantages with uncannily good judgment.
It’s a milestone that the top AI labs in the world have been frantically pushing toward in the …