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David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86
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The guest here is David Silver: Leader of DeepMind's reinforcement learning research group and the lead researcher on AlphaGo and AlphaZero, who also co-led AlphaStar and MuZero. He is one of the central figures behind modern deep reinforcement learning. DeepMind's David Silver explains how AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero used self-play reinforcement learning to master games and discover superhuman creativity.
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