In a shock move on Friday evening, the software agent squared up to top Dota 2 pro gamer Dendi, a Ukrainian 27-year-old, at the Dota 2 world championships dubbed The International.

The OpenAI agent beat Dendi in less than 10 minutes in the first round, and trounced him again in a second round, securing victory in a best-of-three match. “This guy is scary,” a shocked Dendi told the huge crowd watching the battle at the event. Musk was jubilant.
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According to OpenAI, its machine-learning bot was also able to pwn two other top human players earlier this week: SumaiL and Arteezy. Although it’s an impressive breakthrough, it’s important to note this popular strategy game is usually played not one-v-one but as a five-versus-five team game – a rather difficult environment for bots to handle.

Source: OpenAI bot bursts into the ring, humiliates top Dota 2 pro gamer in ‘scary’ one-on-one bout

System can apply a range of styles in real-time, so that the viewfinder displays the enhanced image.
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at Siggraph, the premier digital graphics conference, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Google are presenting a new system that can automatically retouch images in the style of a professional photographer. It’s so energy-efficient, however, that it can run on a cellphone, and it’s so fast that it can display retouched images in real-time, so that the photographer can see the final version of the image while still framing the shot.

The same system can also speed up existing image-processing algorithms. In tests involving a new Google algorithm for producing high-dynamic-range images, which capture subtleties of color lost in standard digital images, the new system produced results that were visually indistinguishable from those of the algorithm in about one-tenth the time — again, fast enough for real-time display.

The system is a machine-learning system, meaning that it learns to perform tasks by analyzing training data; in this case, for each new task it learned, it was trained on thousands of pairs of images, raw and retouched.

Source: Automatic image retouching on your phone

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