AlphaGo
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Brown · said 33 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Vinyals: AlphaGo compute was mostly RL self-play, unlike modern LLM pre-training dominance
“Historically, if you look at AlphaGo, which actually followed quite closely the recipe of you pre-train your model on all human data, you then use RL to make it better, and then you do some search at inference time, the compute there was very skewed for the mi…”
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Laskin: Narrow-domain superintelligence has already been achieved by AlphaGo
“To some extent super intelligence in that sense has already been achieved. So 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.”