#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement learning. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: – Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe – Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w EPISODE LINKS: Reinforcement learning (book): https://amzn.to/2Jwp5zG This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook,

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with David Silver, who leads the reinforcement learning
0:04.0	research group at DeepMind, and was the lead researcher on AlphaGo, Alpha0, and co-led
0:11.1	the AlphaStar and Museoero efforts, and a lot of important work in reinforcement learning
0:15.6	in general.
0:17.1	I believe Alpha0 is one of the most important accomplishments in the history of artificial
0:23.0	intelligence, and David is one of the key humans who brought Alpha0 to life together with
0:29.0	a lot of other great researchers at DeepMind.
0:32.0	He's humble, kind, and brilliant.
0:34.8	We were both jet lagged, but didn't care and made it happen.
0:39.1	It was a pleasure and truly an honor to talk with David.
0:43.4	This conversation was recorded before the outbreak of the pandemic.
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