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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2016 Novemberthenomad

About whether games against bots could offer real PvP thrills without Dota's toxic players.

If the bots could pass a Turing Test, fair enough, yes, that would be appealing. Something of a high bar though.

MOBA game bots pass a Turing Test, so they play indistinguishably from human opponents.

Has this happened?

Yes 52 (45%)Not sure 30 (26%)No 34 (29%)

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