Heads up if anyone's interested: a world-class AI system called OpenAI will be competing for the first time against top-level Dota 2 players in a Best Of 3 series. The main event starts an hour from now on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openai. Before hand, there will be a warm-up match of audience members vs the AI (which I expect will show off the AI by pulverizing the audience players).
The Dota semi-pros are ranked roughly in the 99.95th percentile, putting them just below full-fledged professional players (who would be in the 99.99th percentile). Some of them are former pros, one is an active pro in a lesser team, and many of them are current or former paid commentators of Dota. So they're quite good at the game and know it inside and out. But the new AI is rapidly evolving and improving, making it a huge wildcard, so who knows which side will triumph.
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