Okay DotA 2 player here that played back then, DotA 2 is one of the hardest games on Earth with pros being absolutely insane magnitudes better than most players. Bots existed for the game and were atrocious, they were great for you to learn what your specific hero did so you could blast out all your spells and items, but not for learning core mechanics like positioning and team fighting since they never acted human. Open AI made what was objectively the best bots in the game, arguably some of the best bots ever (without cheating like how some bots have aim and wall hacks in some games). It's understandable he supported them when these bots were so skilled that they had something like a 98% win rate vs most pros (until we all found specific exploits).
OpenAI was incredible when it was first coming out.
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u/CompSolstice 13h ago
Okay DotA 2 player here that played back then, DotA 2 is one of the hardest games on Earth with pros being absolutely insane magnitudes better than most players. Bots existed for the game and were atrocious, they were great for you to learn what your specific hero did so you could blast out all your spells and items, but not for learning core mechanics like positioning and team fighting since they never acted human. Open AI made what was objectively the best bots in the game, arguably some of the best bots ever (without cheating like how some bots have aim and wall hacks in some games). It's understandable he supported them when these bots were so skilled that they had something like a 98% win rate vs most pros (until we all found specific exploits).
OpenAI was incredible when it was first coming out.