I would rather play bots > octupi > thinking player any day of the week.

It's a waste of time IMHO to worry about who's a bot. We're all just freakin funky avatars and digital chips anyhoo. Watch the funky avatar play, look for patterns and exploit them. Don't much care who or what's pushing the buttons behind it....

Octopi on the other hand are a different story... For instance, I did not know that there are 3 plurals for octopus - octopuses, octopodes and octopi. That's some freaky sh!t right there.....