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Lex Fridman · 2019-04-29

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

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StarCraft

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

“then I really got into video games especially Starcraft actually the first version I spent most of my time just playing kind of pseudo professionally”— Oriol Vinyals
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Warcraft II

Blizzard Entertainment

“then I played Warcraft 2 which is from Blizzard but at the time I didn't know I didn't understand about what Blizzard was”— Oriol Vinyals
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Command & Conquer

Westwood Studios (inferred)

“I play other games strategy related I play a bit of common and conquer and then I played Warcraft 2”— Oriol Vinyals
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World of Warcraft

Blizzard Entertainment

“after soccer if I actually played World of Warcraft which is mainly the main sort of online world or in presence that you get to interact with lots of people”— Oriol Vinyals
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Diablo

Blizzard Entertainment

“so Starcraft was released in 98 20 years ago which is hard to believe and Blizzard battlenet with Diablo 96 came out”— Lex Fridman
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Heroes of Might and Magic

New World Computing (inferred)

“the difference between that and chess or maybe that and a game like turn-based strategy like heroes a might of magic is that there's an anxiety”— Lex Fridman
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Dota 2

Valve (inferred)

“we've also seen some amazing results on like for instance dota 2 which is also a very complicated game”— Oriol Vinyals