More than 100 girl geeks met at OpenAI HQ in San Francisco to to connect with OpenAI researchers and learn about their recent work in reinforcement learning, robotics, AI policy, and more!

Early this year, OpenAI Five became the first AI to defeat the world champions in an esports game. We trained a system to understand and play Dota 2 at a high level, demonstrating how pairing self-play with reinforcement learning can lead to superhuman performance at very difficult tasks. In this talk, I’ll give some background on the 2 year project as well as an inside look at challenges that come with training an AI on a very complex game.