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Artificial intelligence beats human eSports world champions at their own game

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Team OG and the OpenAI dev team. (Image: OpenAI)

Artificial intelligence (AI) software has beaten a human team of world champion professional eSports players for the first time.

A team built and trained by research company OpenAI beat the current world champions of online battle game Dota 2, which is the subject of one of the world's largest eSports competitions.

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