AlphaGo
computer program developed by Google DeepMind to play the board game Go
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⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
Latent Space
An AI that revolutionized Go, used as an example of AI learning from games.

Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | Lex Fridman Podcast #344
Lex Fridman
DeepMind's Go-playing AI, acknowledged for its landmark achievement but also the significant role of Monte Carlo tree search, without which it wouldn't be superhuman.

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Lex Fridman
DeepMind's AI program that beat human champions at Go, mentioned as an example of reinforcement learning success through brute force.

The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded
Y Combinator
A Go-playing AI developed by DeepMind, used as an example of Western research labs successfully employing reinforcement learning for complex tasks.

François Chollet: ARC-AGI-3, Beyond Deep Learning & A New Approach To ML
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of deep learning guiding search, similar to the principles being applied at NDIA for program synthesis.

AI Expert Warns: “This Is The Last Mistake We’ll Ever Make” - Tristan Harris
Chris Williamson
An AI program that beat the best human Go player, demonstrating AI's advanced strategic capabilities.

OpenAI Co-Founder on the AI Race, the Sam Altman Firing, and What Comes Next
The Knowledge Project Podcast
A significant AI achievement by DeepMind, mentioned as a precursor to its dominance in the AI field.

Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I Overview of Transformers
Stanford Online
A DeepMind model used for playing chess.

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
Y Combinator
A game-playing AI developed by DeepMind that famously beat a world champion at Go, pioneering agent systems.

Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I Advancing Science and Medicine with Collaborative AI Agents
Stanford Online
An AI program that mastered the game of Go, used as an example of self-play and reinforcement learning.

5 Papers That Show Where AI Research Is Heading Right Now
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a predecessor to AlphaZero and a benchmark in AI development.

Inside The AI Race: DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, China, and The Race to Superintelligence
Tim Ferriss
An AI model developed by DeepMind in 2016 that defeated the world champion at Go, demonstrating AI's ability to navigate infinite search spaces.

Dante Livestream #9 (Wednesday, June 24 10AM)
Predictive History
An AI mentioned as an analogy for God's ability to foresee choices, suggesting God can see the ultimate ending of choices without controlling free will.

The Case for AI That Improves Itself | Deep Dives with a16z
a16z Deep Dives
An example of self-accelerating AI from the history of the field, utilizing self-play loops.

Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Latent Space
The AI system that played Lee Sedol is cited as a pivotal moment that inspired many to enter the field of AI research, including Mark Chen.