AlphaZero
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2026 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet
- Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- Nick Bostrom: Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete
- $40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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2025 21 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
- Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
- Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
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2024 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Hassabis: Next few years of AI advances will come from RL and search
“And I think a lot of those ideas, both from AlphaGo and AlphaZero are really, really relevant to where we are with today's foundation models. And I think a lot of that is what we're going to see of the advances the next few years.”
Chollet: Deep learning guidance is necessary to break combinatorial program search
“You have to break the combinatorial wall, and the way to do it is to add deep learning guidance. It's actually very similar to the principles that analyze something like AlphaGo or AlphaZero.”
Hassabis: Post-human AGI will discover room-temperature superconductors and new energy sources
“I mean, that's what to me is, it would be the AGI moment is, you know, then it will discover a new superconductor, room temperature superconductor that's possible in the laws of physics, but we just haven't found that needle in the haystack. Or a new source of…”
Masad: Next-gen coding AI will train via AlphaZero-style RL, not human code
“My bet is that Pretty soon we're going to move into more of the alpha zero style of training where you have a more traditional LM that's trained on all of the internet. But then the way to train the next generation of it would be to give it a reinforcement lea…”
Hassabis: Test-time compute elevated AlphaZero from master level to superhuman
“We had versions of AlphaGo and AlphaZero with the thinking turned off, so it was just the model telling you its first idea. And, you know, it's not bad, it's maybe like master level, something like that, but then if you turn the thinking on, it's way beyond wo…”
Brin: Inference-time compute offsets 5,000x in training compute
“What they did with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, as you mentioned it showed, as I recall, something you would take 5000 times as much training to match what you were able to do with still a lot of training and the inference time compute that you were doing with Go.”
Hubert: Formal math proofs enable self-improving reinforcement learning loops
“The advantage of that is that once kind of the proof is complete then you know, the machine would give you a signal back to say, yes, your proof is correct or not. And so we could search for kind of correct proofs. Once we find a correct proof, we can learn fr…”
Robinson: AlphaZero surpassed all human chess knowledge within four hours
“And in four hours, that program leapfrogged all existing human knowledge of the game, and has a chess rating of, hard to estimate, like, 36, 3700, compared with 3300.”
Robinson: AlphaZero defeated top chess engine without losing a single game
“This pro, this computer program played a match against the reigning software, right, 3300. It beat it 72 to 28 in a 100 game match with no losses.”
AI Will Exponentially Exceed Human Intelligence in Hours in New Domains
“Now imagine that computer is unleashed not in the domain of chess, but in other domains. It'll totally recreate everything we know and then go beyond it in hours. So the scary thing with AI is this, that it will become exponentially smarter than we are in minu…”