AlphaGo

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2025 by William Beauchamp · said 27 times in 12 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jan 26, 2025 neutral
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Beauchamp: Almost no 2010s ML reached superhuman performance except AlphaGo
“There was almost nothing that went superhuman except for something like AlphaGo.”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 10:16 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
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Brown: Scaling self-play beyond zero-sum games will not be as easy as AlphaGo
“My point is that, like, this is where the AlphaGo analogy breaks down. And, not necessarily breaks down, but, like, it's not going to be as easy as self-play was in AlphaGo.”
Noam Brown Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 58:29 Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
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