AlphaGo
computer program developed by Google DeepMind to play the board game Go
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Videos Mentioning AlphaGo

The Real Surprise of the Last 3 Years in AI – Dario Amodei
Dwarkesh Clips
DeepMind's reinforcement learning milestone mentioned as part of RL scaling history.

Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Latent Space
A Go-playing AI that demonstrated the power of self-play and human-computer collaboration, used as an analogy for the potential of RLHF and Centaur models.

Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan
Y Combinator
DeepMind's AI program that excelled at the game of Go, significantly impacting professional play and human understanding of the game.

Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Latent Space
Cited as an example of superhuman performance achieved through tree search, drawing parallels to advanced AI techniques.

Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?: A Conversation with Mustafa Suleyman (Episode #332)
Sam Harris
DeepMind's AI that achieved superhuman performance in the game of Go, using a combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning.

Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227
Lex Fridman
A DeepMind AI program that plays the board game Go, mentioned as an example of AI surprising humans in game-playing, preceding AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero.

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy

Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
Sam Harris
AI developed by DeepMind that defeated the human champion at the game of Go.

Constructing Self and World: A Conversation with Shamil Chandaria (Episode #320)
Sam Harris
A DeepMind AI program that defeated the world champion in the game of Go, cited as a significant AI breakthrough.

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman
AI system that learned to play Go through self-play and reinforcement learning, an example of success in specific problem domains.

Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
Latent Space
A game developed by DeepMind that Jack Morris found impressive around 2017-2018.

Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
Latent Space
Used as a parallel to language model development, highlighting the stages of pre-training, large-scale test-time compute, and self-play in achieving superhuman performance.

An Important Message On AI & Productivity: How To Get Ahead While Others Panic | Cal Newport
Cal Newport
DeepMind's Go-playing AI that beat Lee Sedol, using a sophisticated understanding of board evaluations combined with future simulation.

Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
Lex Fridman
DeepMind's AI program that plays the board game Go.

Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215
Lex Fridman
An AI program that achieved superhuman performance in the game of Go, demonstrating the power of reinforcement learning.

Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94
Lex Fridman
A computer program that plays the game of Go, developed by DeepMind, which uses deep neural networks and tree search to achieve superhuman performance.

⚡️Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
Latent Space
A DeepMind AI that demonstrated capabilities in multi-agent RL, serving as a foundational example for Will Brown's early research interests.

Turing Test: Can Machines Think?
Lex Fridman
A program developed by DeepMind (Google) that plays the game of Go. AlphaGo Zero further advanced this by not using human games for training.

Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions, and More
Tim Ferriss
A computer program that solved the game of Go, demonstrating significant AI capabilities and even inventing new strategies.

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
Lex Fridman
DeepMind's AI program that beat a human world champion at Go, seen by Michael Littman as a remarkable engineering feat.

Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
Lex Fridman
An AI program that plays the game Go, whose unexpected moves were described as 'zero-like insights' and sparked the idea of computational intelligence introducing revolutionary concepts.

Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185
Lex Fridman
An AI algorithm that achieved superhuman performance in the game of Go, used as an analogy for rapid AI advancement.

David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86
Lex Fridman
A computer program developed by DeepMind that plays the game of Go, famous for defeating top human players.

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38
Lex Fridman
An AI program that is better at Go than the best human player, mentioned as an example of specific task intelligence.