About whether OpenAI's 1v1 Dota 2 bot is real progress or hype.
Has this happened?
Yes 16 (12%)Not sure 91 (69%)No 25 (19%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether OpenAI's 1v1 Dota 2 bot is real progress or hype.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'll precommit to being very impressed if a bot can achieve >5k MMR in solo ranked or if a bot-controlled team wins a tier 6 (or higher) battle cup.
When Checkers and Chess and Go pros were beaten by AI at the actual game, people were impressed, because it was impressive. (The goalpost moving involved claiming each consecutive game could not be solved.)
I don't think anyone here is saying Dota 2 won't be solved eventually or that its complexity is beyond the realm of AI (as was claimed of Chess/Go in the past). They're just saying this particular achievement isn't actually meaningful progress. It's using known techniques to do something those techniques are known to do.