Most cited

Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 27 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
2018
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OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress

OpenAI Five is the first AI to beat the world champions in an esports game, having won two back-to-back games versus the world champion Dota 2 team, OG, at Finals this weekend. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar had previously beaten good pros privately but lost their live pro matches, making this also the…

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Self driving cars and beyond

The story of technology is not unlike what often happens in dramatic stories and plays, where a “deus ex machina” or character drops down magically from the skies onto our world stage. But in reality, technology never comes so suddenly, or in such an isolated manner: There’s an entire ecosystem that grows up around…