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OpenAI’s Dota 2 Video Game Bots Can Beat Top Players But Loses to Internet Teams

OpenAI’s team of Dota 2 bots, which has beaten top players in the past, moved to face challengers on the internet – and has suddenly started to lose to teams of human players, who are learning how to exploit OpenAI Five’s weaknesses.

After beating the pro team OG, which won more than $11 million at Dota 2’s high-profile tournament called The International 2018, OpenAI’s team of Dota 2 bots faces a much more challenging opponent – internet players. OpenAI, a technology non-profit founded by Elon Musk and others, began allowing any Dota 2 player to challenge OpenAI Five – and the first loss came just hours after the test began.

Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar have defeated professional video game players previously, although the matches were not live-streamed. Last week’s match against OG was the first time one of these AI victories happened live, and now OpenAI Five faces a massive number of human teams in real-time. So far nine teams have beaten OpenAI Five, giving the AI roster a 1,923-9 win/loss record; a 99.5 percent win-rate for the bots.

The first team to do so was a professional roster, Alpha Red, from Thailand, who beat the AI team in around 45 minutes, with 34 kills to 24.

https://sputniknews.com/viral/201904211074316033-dota-openai-bots-win-defeated-players-esports/

Kushner: UNRWA 'corrupt' and doesn't help peace

"Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there," wrote Kushner in a confidential email regarding the UN Relief and Work Agency.

Jared Kushner, senior advisor and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, wrote in a confidential email that the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) is "corrupt" and "doesn't help peace."

UNRWA provides services, including education and health care, to Palestinian refugees and their descendants who reside in the Middle East. The Trump administration announced it would cut US funding to the agency on August 31, 2018.

Kushner's letter, sent January 11, 2018, was revealed on Friday by Foreign Policy magazine. Kushner forwarded it to various current and former government officials, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former national security advisor H. R. McMaster, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.

"It's very important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNWRA [sic]," wrote Kushner. UNRWA "perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn't help peace."

He continued, "Our goal can't be to keep things stable as they are, our goal had to be to make things significantly BETTER!

"Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there."

Kushner also suggested that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (who was not among the recipients of the letter) read an op-ed in the January 10 edition of the Wall Street Journal, applauding the Trump administration's decision to freeze funding for UNRWA.

The Trump administration has changed a number of US policies regarding Israel, the Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Besides refusing to fund UNRWA, the US recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and subsequently moved its embassy there, and also recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Kushner-UNRWA-corrupt-doesnt-help-peace-587428