Dota 2's Top Pros Bested By Open AI Developed 1v1 Bot

Open AI's bot dispatches Dota 2's top players live at TI7.

By Sam Stewart

Artificial intelligence company Open AI has created a bot that is taking down top Dota 2 players at The International 2017.

This year's big Dota 2 tournament is currently in its second to last day with only four teams remaining in competition. Between the event's official games, Valve always includes some fun show matches, and this year it brought in Open AI's aforementioned Dota 2 bot to face off against the game's most famous player, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, live on the main stage.

Open AI said the 1v1 bot has learned from playing against itself in lifetimes worth of matches. In a promo video shown before the match we see the bot besting some of the game's top players, including Evil Genius' cores Arteezy and Sumail.

In the live Shadow Fiend mirror match against Dendi, the bot executed an impossibly perfect creep block, perfectly balanced creep aggro, and even recognized and cancelled Dendi's healing items. The bot quickly bested Dendi in two matches, leading Dendi to say it's "too strong!" Footage of those matches can be found on Dota 2 Rapier's YouTube channel.

Open AI says their next goal is to get the bot ready for the infinitely more complex 5v5 matches, noting it might have something ready for next year. Earlier this week, Valve announced a Dota 2 card game called Artifact is currently in development.

Sam Stewart is a freelance writer for IGN. All of his teams have already been eliminated from TI7. You can mourn EG's loss alongside him on Twitter.

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