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| 2017 || {{dts|August 12}} || || OpenAI's Dota 2 bot beats Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, a professional human player, (and possibly others?) in one-on-one battles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/12/openai-bot-remains-undefeated-against-worlds-greatest-dota-2-players/ |date=August 12, 2017 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=OpenAI bot remains undefeated against world's greatest Dota 2 players |author=Jordan Crook |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16143392/dota-ai-openai-bot-win-elon-musk |date=August 14, 2017 |publisher=The Verge |title=Did Elon Musk's AI champ destroy humans at video games? It's complicated |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-international-dota-2-openai-bot-beats-dendi-2017-8 |date=August 11, 2017 |title=Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed a pro gamer |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 13}} || || ''{{W|The New York Times}}'' publishes a story covering the AI safety work (by Dario Amodei, Geoffrey Irving, and Paul Christiano) at OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/technology/artificial-intelligence-safety-training.html |date=August 13, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|September 13}} || || "Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness" is first uploaded to the arXiv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04326 |title=[1709.04326] Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2017/09 |author=gwern |date=August 16, 2017 |title=September 2017 news - Gwern.net |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 11}} || || RoboSumo, a game that simulates {{W|sumo wrestling}} for AI to learn to play, is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/story/ai-sumo-wrestlers-could-make-future-robots-more-nimble/ |title=AI Sumo Wrestlers Could Make Future Robots More Nimble |publisher=[[WIRED]] |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-virtual-robots-learn-sumo-wrestle-soccer-sports-ai-tech-science-2017-10 |first1=Alexandra |last1=Appolonia |first2=Justin |last2=Gmoser |date=October 20, 2017 |title=Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company created virtual robots that can sumo wrestle and play soccer |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|November 6}} || || ''{{W|The New York Times}}'' reports that {{W|Pieter Abbeel}} (a researcher at OpenAI) and three other researchers from Berkeley and OpenAI have left to start their own company called Embodied Intelligence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/technology/artificial-intelligence-start-up.html |date=November 6, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December}} || || The 2017 AI Index is published. OpenAI contributed to the report.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16723238/ai-artificial-intelligence-progress-index |date=December 1, 2017 |publisher=The Verge |title=Artificial intelligence isn't as clever as we think, but that doesn't stop it being a threat |first=James |last=Vincent |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|March 3}} || || OpenAI will host a hackathon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/hackathon/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Hackathon |date=February 24, 2018 |accessdate=March 1, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|April 9}} || || OpenAI releases a charter. The charter says in part that OpenAI commits to stop competing with a value-aligned and safety-conscious project that comes close to building artificial general intelligence, and also that OpenAI expects to reduce its traditional publishing in the future due to safety concerns.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/openai-charter/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Charter |date=April 9, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/e5mFQGMc7JpechJak/openai-charter |title=OpenAI charter |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |date=April 9, 2018 |author=wunan |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8azk2n/d_openai_charter/ |publisher=reddit |title=[D] OpenAI Charter • r/MachineLearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794194 |title=OpenAI Charter |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/04/10/the-ai-company-elon-musk-co-founded-is-trying-to-create-sentient-machines/ |title=The AI company Elon Musk co-founded intends to create machines with real intelligence |publisher=The Next Web |date=April 10, 2018 |author=Tristan Greene |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|April 19}} || || ''{{W|The New York Times}}'' publishes a story detailing the salaries of researchers at OpenAI, using information from OpenAI's 2016 {{W|Form 990}}. The salaries include $1.9 million paid to {{W|Ilya Sutskever}} and $800,000 paid to {{W|Ian Goodfellow}} (hired in March of that year).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html |date=April 19, 2018 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/8di9yt/ai_researchers_are_making_more_than_1_million/dxnc76j/ |publisher=reddit |title="A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit [OpenAI]" • r/reinforcementlearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16880447 |title=gwern comments on A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|May 2}} || || The paper "AI safety via debate" by Geoffrey Irving, Paul Christiano, and Dario Amodei is uploaded to the arXiv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899 |title=[1805.00899] AI safety via debate |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/debate/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=AI Safety via Debate |date=May 3, 2018 |first1=Geoffrey |last1=Irving |first2=Dario |last2=Amodei |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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