Opening Keynote | OpenAI Five Finals (1/6)

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the open ai-5 finals [Music] we're gonna start off by talking a little bit about the project obviously main attraction will be opening I five playing against OG but we also have a couple of surprises after that so make sure you stick around for that as well and I of course will not be doing that alone I am Shiva dream Vander Heiden your host but I'm joined right now with blitz and purge guys how are you doing I'm great really happy to be here I love the set it's nice and beautiful and colorful yeah and happy that something people can be here in the arena right yes dude that's better than most LAN event crowds today we're gonna obviously talk about dota 2 you guys we're gonna also talk to some of the opening hi guys and girls actually about the project and everything that we're going to see today but before that before anything else I'd like to give the stage to a Greg Buckman who is the chairman and CTO of open AI all right welcome everyone all right who's excited about today yeah this is a historic moment it's going to be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play the world champions in an eSports game Oh G is just on another level relative to any other team that we've played and so the truth is we don't know what's going to happen either win or lose if these were going to be games to remember and you know open a high five and deep mines very impressive Starcraft but have all beaten good pros privately but no one's ever seen this happen live so if we're lucky today it'll be the first time anyone's got to see that - but this event it's really about something bigger than who wins and who loses it's about letting people connect with a strange exotic but still somehow very tangible intelligences that are produced by today's rapidly progressing AI technology you know we're we've all grown used to computer programs which are coded by a human programmer you do one thing that person didn't anticipate the program breaks so we think of our machine of our computers as these unthinking machines they can't innovate they can't be creative they can't truly understand but in order to play dota you kind of need to do all those things so we had to do something different open a hive is powered by deep reinforcement learning which means that we didn't code in how to play dota we coded in how to learn five tries out random actions it learns from a reward or a punishment and then it's ten months of existence it's now played over 45,000 years yep that was 45,000 years of dota gameplay it's a lot it has a grown board yet and the play style you're going to see today it's truly its own eye that you know everything you see it's truly creative it's been dreamed up by a computer and so from fives perspective today's games are going to be its first encounter with an alien intelligence no offense to og but the beauty of this technology really is that our learning code doesn't even know it's meant for dota and that means that it's very general purpose and it has this amazing potential to benefit our lives last year we use it to control robot hand that just no one could program and we expect to see similar technology and new interactive systems from elderly care of robots to creative assistants to other systems that we can't even imagine today now this is going to be the final public event for open and i-5 as you might guess from the the name of the event but we expect we're going to do other dota projects in the future now I really want to thank the incredible team at open AI ever and who worked check check check all right everyone who worked directly on the project or cheered us on I want to sect those reported the project which is valve Google cloud Microsoft Azure dozens of test teams today's casters and yes all the cast commenters on reddit and I really want to give NASA thanks today to our special guests oh gee who have taken time out of their tournament schedule to be here so please enjoy the show and just keep in mind no matter how surprised the a eyes are to us know that we're going to be even more surprising to them all right let's do it [Applause]