Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 188 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
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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…