Schuler: 45% of citations in DeepMind's AlphaGo paper were from U of Alberta
Cameron Schuler · a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:51
Cameron Schuler highlights the fundamental research contributions made by the University of Alberta to DeepMind's breakthrough AlphaGo system.
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“AlphaGo, I think it was roughly 45% of the research cited on their AlphaGo paper came from the University of Alberta.”
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