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

1h 48m
Hosted byLex Fridman

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.

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Reinforcement learning (book): https://amzn.to/2Jwp5zG

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

04:09 – First program

11:11 – AlphaGo

21:42 – Rule of the game of Go

25:37 – Reinforcement learning: personal journey

30:15 – What is reinforcement learning?

43:51 – AlphaGo (continued)

53:40 – Supervised learning and self play in AlphaGo

1:06:12 – Lee Sedol retirement from Go play

1:08:57 – Garry Kasparov

1:14:10 – Alpha Zero and self play

1:31:29 – Creativity in AlphaZero

1:35:21 – AlphaZero applications

1:37:59 – Reward functions

1:40:51 – Meaning of life

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