This is an unquestionable technical achievement, but its important to keep in mind that the AI view of the world is through the bot API. This is compared to a h

This is an unquestionable technical achievement, but its important to keep in mind that the AI view of the world is through the bot API. This is compared to a human that decodes game state from observing the monitor. Not being an avid DOTA2 player I marvel at skilled players that can follow the game based on what looks like a very busy and colorful mess to me. At the same time most of the deep learning field has been focusing on implementing super-human perceptual abilities (vision, hearing, translation) that come instinctually to humans. The higher level reasoning and memory/attention augmented machine learning is still cutting edge research. I think DeepMind and OpenAI are driving research towards that end.