It was only August of last year (2018) when OpenAI barely lost to some good human players, and now here we are. It's starting to feel like AlphaGo all over again. If it does go that route, OpenAI Five will continue to get better as it keeps playing itself, till it leaves humanity behind.<p>Chart of appx AI MMR over time: <a href="https://openai.com/five/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/five/</a>
Didn't D. Lenat's 'Automated Mathematician' ('AM') software (from the 'Eurisko' line) perform similarly (let's say 'learning new heuristics by discovery, through training') when it won at a championship built upon a game named 'Classic Traveller', in 1981 and 1982?<p>I can't find any occurrence of the words 'eurisko' nor 'lenat' in the openai.com website.<p>It OpenAI's software ran autonomously, starting with a completely generic version (not taylored for games, especially for Dota) then interacting with humans exclusively through the Dota game (no source code nor parameters modification) it may be a breakthrough.<p><a href="https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/eurisko-computer-mind-its-own" rel="nofollow">https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/eurisko-computer-mind-it...</a><p><a href="http://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~mek802/papers/not-mine/Lenat_EURISKO.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~mek802/papers/not-mine/Len...</a><p><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Myr7PLikhzYgPFhuy/replicating-douglas-lenat-s-traveller-tcs-win-with-publicly" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Myr7PLikhzYgPFhuy/replicatin...</a>