Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot
<i>We did not make sudden progress in AI because our algorithms are so smart – it worked because our researchers are smart about setting up the problem in just the right way to work around the limitations of current techniques.</i><p>This statement is like putting wheels and a motor at the base of the goalposts.<p>Everyone who practices ML knows the reality that while we&#x27;re not going to see AGI for a while, and these systems are massively hard to build and do very narrow bounded things, they are also making massive progress in &quot;intelligent&quot; outputs at a pace we&#x27;ve never seen.<p>Yes, there is hype, but there are pretty solid reasons to be hyped.<p>We&#x27;ll keep seeing people saying oh well it&#x27;s not <i>that impressive</i> probably until AGI has clearly taken everyone&#x27;s job in 2100 and we&#x27;re all just providing training data for it.