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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where AlphaGo comes up on the a16z Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, No Priors, Big Technology, Latent Space
Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 30:40 Torsten Reil And so we use the same approaches basically as, um, you know, DeepMind used as well for AlphaGo and AlphaStar using, um, reinforcement learning.
- ▶ 1:10:50 David Senra You mentioned, um, your previous company a few times, and you said something when you guys were developing the autonomous fighter jet, that you used a very similar technique that Demis used to do alpha bow.
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 24:35 Steven Sinofsky Well, we did, we had the AlphaGo moment. 3 times in the scene
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
- ▶ 16:59 Harry Stebbings It's kind of like AlphaGo, you know, they just beat the shit out of the model and played it a thousand times every day of activities and outcomes in the world is another game of AlphaGo where you can correct the model on what was wrong and… 2 times in the scene
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 50:22 unnamed speaker Where we see it the most is, it, it, it's an interesting data type because it's competitive and you can have these AlphaGo type situations for, for cyber offense and defense where you can have, ah, uncapped rewards and performance and the,…
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:31 unnamed speaker That's what's done in alpha go in chess. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 unnamed speaker Because, um, it's because I want to get to the alpha go, uh, uh, the way that they solve this and you're right. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:10 unnamed speaker So just imagine, uh, so why alpha go, uh, doesn't scale.
- ▶ 37:04 unnamed speaker I mean, in a sense, the chess and alpha go state space is already like more than the number of atoms in the universe or something to that effect.
- ▶ 1:08:12 unnamed speaker A lot of these are doing some sort of expensive planning step, and we're doing some sort of, like, uh, we're, we're kind of hacking around it with this retraining process and synthetic data, but even so, like, to really get maximum…
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 31:00 Jonathan Ross AlphaGo running on GPUs had an ELO score of about 3200.
- ▶ 45:37 Jonathan Ross Remember my experience of AlphaGo on, you know, TPUs and, and being able to outperform the world's best Go player only because of the hardware that we switched to.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 27:36 Greg Brockman You remember move 37, this move that like changed people's understanding of the game.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 3:30:02 Greg Brockman You remember move 37, this move that like changed people's understanding of the game.
Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 15:07 Jonathan Siddharth AlphaGo and AlphaZero by DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
$40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:16 Claire Zhao What they can unlock in, you know, games of AlphaGo and AlphaZero.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 21:52 Bill Gurley There are much better people to talk about this than me, but there's a, people point to this famous game that Google AlphaGo, where Google implemented, and the bot eventually came up with a move that was shocking to all humans, and that, I… 2 times in the scene
AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- ▶ 4:07 Geoffrey Hinton In that sense, it's a bit like AlphaGo where you can play against yourself.
OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
- ▶ 4:14 Dan Roberts And around that time, I'm pretty old now for, at least for this field, so that was about 20 16, uh, was when the DQN Atari paper from DeepMind happened in 2015, and then AlphaGo was in 2016, and I got very excited about these, um, about…
🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:17 Garry Tan AlphaGo beat a world champion at Go.
- ▶ 6:13 Garry Tan AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:38 Demis Hassabis What I often say about that is, like, if we look at the things we've done, like AlphaGo, so obviously, very famously, you'll all know about the move-thirty-seven in game two, and for me, I was waiting for a moment like that to start the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:39 Demis Hassabis Five minutes spare, but the lesson I've learned from all the alpha projects we've done, specifically alpha go and alpha fold is, um, I think the techniques we have and the problems I look like to look for are great in, if this, if the… 2 times in the scene
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 4:40 Greg Brockman This was before AlphaGo, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Shane Parrish I thought Dota was like an incredible moment because it was, it wasn't, um, chess like deep blue and it wasn't alpha go, which is like computationally intensive, but very defined rules.
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:01 Demis Hassabis So one of our groups, um, if you think of like AlphaGo and reinforcement learning, and of course Transformers,
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 48:29 Greg Brockman The thing that I am just very excited to see is almost, if you remember AlphaGoMove.com, right, this move that no human ever would have come up with.
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 40:23 David Senra And so one of the things that they're working on is they want to build AlphaGo.
- ▶ 43:35 David Senra And so then when I go back to this idea of using AI to generate this alien, like non-human ideas, they continue to improve AlphaGo.
World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 16:11 Sergey Levine Like, if you want to, like, a single example to epitomize this, generative AI, that's like LLMs, deep reinforcement learning, AlphaGo, right?
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:01 François Chollet It's actually very similar to the principles that analyze something like AlphaGo or AlphaZero.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 1:38:56 Bret Taylor It won't quite be like the, you know, Apollo landing, but, you know, I remember, you know, uh, the Kasparov, you know, chess match, and, and I certainly, you know, things like AlphaGo were really meaningful.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:10 Garry Tan But AlphaGo didn't either. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:45 Calvin French-Owen I would say, uh, it does the most stuff that humans don't do kind of in this alpha go sense where it's like, oh, it'll write a Python script to like modify some part of the file system.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
- ▶ 3:54 Demis Hassabis You know, AlphaFold, AlphaGo are examples of that, so some of our most important work, um, combines neural networks and deep learning with things like Monte Carlo Tree Search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:00 Demis Hassabis Uh, interestingly in Go, um, the, the best South Go player in the world is a South Korean, and he was about 15, I think, when AlphaGo match happened. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Demis Hassabis Is because of things like AlphaGo and AlphaFold, especially AlphaFold, where, you know, we solved all the protein structures that are kind of known to science, and how have we done that?
- ▶ 31:52 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you built AlphaGo, uh, trained, um, the computer to play Go on human knowledge, and then once it mastered the human level playing, you kind of like let it loose.
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ▶ 15:08 unnamed speaker Oh, it's a very alpha goal.
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- ▶ 16:47 Shaan Puri And so they start, and they, this is called, they created this program called AlphaGo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Shaan Puri They go, and they go, I think we might have just seen an original move by AlphaGo. 3 times in the scene
Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 22:32 Ashby Monk But in 2016, we had AlphaGo. 2 times in the scene
GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 24:29 Gavin Baker I mean, that that's, that's just like AlphaGo.
Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
- ▶ 15:39 Daniel Mahr The algorithms behind AlphaGo are not a decision tree.
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 18:16 Adam D'Angelo So, you know, on one extreme, you have something like AlphaGo where it's just a perfect environment and you can just blast past expert level.
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:35 Joelle Pineau So the place where most people started hearing about RL is around the AlphaGo time, you know, the game of Go, which was sort of one of the goals for AI.
- ▶ 9:40 Harry Stebbings Does progression happen in kind of a linear fashion, or does it happen in step functions like AlphaGo, like a DeepSeq, which depending, depending on kind of what you believe, suggests a lot of efficiency in terms of model improvement.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 24:29 Amjad Masad It's not new, crucially, it's like, it's AlphaGo, right? 3 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 6:57 Reid Hoffman Now, part of the insight that you begin to see from, like, the work with Alpha, you know, Go and AlphaZero is because, like, people just think, ah, physical material is going to take quantum computing.
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 25:21 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, if you remember, uh, from the Alpha Zero days, uh, when DeepMind was teaching their Go playing algorithm, the first version of, um, uh, Google's, uh, AlphaGo system, uh, learned from expert humans, which was quite good.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:37 Ben Gilbert David, should we talk about AlphaGo on this episode?
- ▶ 1:49:21 Ben Gilbert The other thing to know about the TPUs is they were done in time for the AlphaGo match.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:03 Jonathan Ross I thought it was going to be more like AlphaGo.
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
- ▶ 17:48 unnamed speaker Um, I know you've been at OpenAI for almost decade now, but I was struck by, uh, the story of Lee Sedol, the Go player, who kind of famously quit Go after he lost to AlphaGo, um, multiple times. 2 times in the scene
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 0:21 Demis Hassabis AlphaGo was the big watershed moment, I think, not just for DeepMind and my company, but for AI in general.
- ▶ 17:07 Demis Hassabis Another example would be with our, uh, AlphaGo program that beat the world champion at Go.
- ▶ 27:37 Demis Hassabis Now the trick is with all hybrid systems is, and AlphaGo was another hybrid system where there's a neural network learning about the game of Go and what's, what kind of patterns are good. 3 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 46:46 Benedict Evans One of them is, it's an interesting theoretical, philosophical question, is originality, which is to say AlphaGo could do original moves, because it could do all the moves, and do moves that no one had done before, not knowing what people…
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 29:11 Debargo "DD" Das In a similar way that you would do, for example, when Google did AlphaGo, and you train an AI to learn a game, you have a reward, which is winning the game, and then you figure out the steps in the middle.
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 34:08 Jack Parker-Holder That's how we got AlphaGo because the agent, uh, AlphaGo learned by playing Go by itself, trying new things, right? 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 40:41 John Coogan They beat Lisa Dahl, and in Move-thirty-seven, it was like this moment of, like, true inspiration where, uh, uh, AlphaGo put a piece on the board that was so unexpected.
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:25 Jared Kaplan So, uh, a researcher about four years ago decided to study scaling laws for AlphaGo, basically putting together two very, very high profile AI successes, GPT-III and scaling for pre-training and AlphaGo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:38 Jared Kaplan So if you put, say, AlphaGo on this figure, it would be very, very far below the x-axis, because although AlphaGo was super intelligent, it was better than any Go player at playing Go, it was, ah, 2 times in the scene
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
- ▶ 16:32 unnamed speaker Like the AlphaGo moment was kind of in 2015, 20 16.
No Priors Ep. 123 | With ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
- ▶ 0:16 Sarah Guo Reflection AI's co-founders Misha Laskin and Yana Santanoglu work together as leaders at Google DeepMind on groundbreaking projects like AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Gemini.
- ▶ 1:32 Misha Laskin So, uh, right, AlphaGo was a super intelligent system, and there were other systems during that time that were built that were super intelligent in narrow domains.
- ▶ 5:25 Misha Laskin Saw kind of AlphaGo happen, and my sense was that, uh, I want to pursue the kind of the root science, uh, but there is such a thing as kind of the root science of our time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:52 Misha Laskin It happened with, um, the Atari games, AlphaGo, um, you know, then Dota V and AlphaStar were near super intelligent systems, and if OpenAI and DeepMind had sunk more compute into them, they would have definitely become super intelligent.
How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:07 Joe Lonsdale Cause it reminds me of disgusting, like alpha go and alpha chests and stuff where you model it and you guys, and there's no equivalent of like move 37 and alpha go where you just do something shocking. 2 times in the scene
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:51 François Chollet Or you can take, uh, AlphaGo with move.
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 2:09 Jack Morris I mean, I think AlphaGo, I thought AlphaGo was really good.
No Priors Ep. 120 | With Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Matej Balog
- ▶ 0:34 Sarah Guo In the way that Move.com did with AlphaGo, something humans hadn't done before, even in thousands of years of play.
- ▶ 2:53 Pushmeet Kohli Our earlier sort of work, uh, and if we go back to, uh, the project on AlphaCo, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:35 Pushmeet Kohli The solutions and the programs that, uh, AlphaGo finds are, uh, sort of interpretable by, uh, human, uh, programmers.
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 54:46 Noam Brown And I think if you're following, you know, you look at something like AlphaGo and AlphaZero, we seem to be following a very similar trend, right? 5 times in the scene
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 1:01:17 Chris Lattner Well, and so, uh, so my, my experience with RL systems were like at scale, DeepMind style, AlphaGo and things like this, right?
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
- ▶ 9:58 Alex Duffy I mean, I, I think a lot of the examples that you gave, I think it's so cool that, you know, education being a big part, part of my life that AlphaGo, right? 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 1:13:18 Mark Chen I think my, my, like my personal story is, it's like, you know, what, what got me into, uh, AI was AlphaGo, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:23 John Coogan What I mean is, uh, as I remember it, the AlphaGo training run was not a hundred K H 200. 5 times in the scene
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 29:21 Matt Mazzeo Do you understand this moment that happened a decade ago with AlphaGo? 6 times in the scene
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 53:21 Rick Rubin And, um, in, like in the AlphaGo story, the reason the AlphaGo 2 times in the scene
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- ▶ 28:10 Koray Kavukcuoglu And then, uh, and then models like AlphaGo, right?
⚡️Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
- ▶ 25:50 Will Brown But, like, towards the end of the 20 tens, like, we had, like, AlphaGo and DeepMind doing all this multi-agent RL stuff that was, like, really cool.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
- ▶ 4:27 Demis Hassabis If you go back to our very early work on things like AlphaGo and AlphaZero, our agent work on, on playing games, they will all have this type of attribute of a thinking system on top of a model. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Demis Hassabis Um, real, uh, structures in nature is quite interesting and telling, and I've been thinking a lot about our work we've done with AlphaGo and AlphaFold in these types of systems.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:55 Bucky Moore Now that we have test time compute, the same thing that brought us AlphaGo is sort of bringing an equivalent of that in all these different domains where unlike the human brain, these AIs can just try
EP7 Nationalistic Interests, Humanitarian Efforts & Future of AI ft Vinayak Hegde
- ▶ 24:55 Vinayak Hegde Another good example is AlphaGo, right?
Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents.
Roblox CEO: We Want AI To Generate Full Games
- ▶ 16:30 Alex Kantrowitz AlphaGo beat Lisa Dahl, the grand master there.
Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- ▶ 2:06 Misha Laskin And the first one was reinforcement learning, in which a lot of members of our team pioneered some of the largest advances in that, including deep Q networks, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and so forth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:10 Alessio Fanelli So you mentioned AlphaGo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:38 Misha Laskin I think that, I mean, so, for, to me, it just means, it's just a system that will be able to do most of the work that we wanted to on a computer, and not just kind of do it, but do it more creatively than we could, right, that it'll… 2 times in the scene
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:20 Steeve Morin Uh, that feels a bit, I would say intuitive, but if you look at AlphaGo, for instance, uh, the, the moment it's, you know, ramped up in its, in its skills is when they started generating games or synthetic games, right?
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:54 Aravind Srinivas That was the rage at the time because of AlphaGo and DeepMind.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:49 Jonathan Ross So going back to my background, one of the, the fun things that I got to witness, I, I wasn't directly involved, was, um, AlphaGo, when, um, Google beat the, the world champion Lisa Dahl and Go, um, that model was, was trained on a bunch…
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 47:18 John Coogan And so this is the same way that Lisa Dahl got beat by, uh, by AlphaGo because AlphaGo was able to play, move-thirty-seven, was able to play, you know, trillions of games in, in synthetically, like just with itself. 2 times in the scene
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 10:16 William Beauchamp There was almost nothing that went superhuman except for something like AlphaGo. 2 times in the scene
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