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#45 - Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How Long Does It Take to Be a Good Engineer to Work at OpenAI?

OpenAI is developing large-scale reinforcement learning for Dota 2. The majority of the work at OpenAI is actually engineering, says Fei-Fei Li. There's a spectrum of where engineers who show up in OpenAI end up specializing. Some people focus on building out infrastructure and that can range from Kubernetes deployment to managing this underlying layer.

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