AlphaGo

6 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2017 by Murray Shanahan · said 35 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jun 28, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Shanahan: AlphaGo's Move 37 revolutionized top-level Go strategy
“So we've already seen that with our, with AlphaGo in the match with Lee Sedol. So as you probably know, there was a famous move in the second match against Lee Sedol, move 37, where all the commentators, all these sort of nine Dan masters were saying, saying, …”
Murray Shanahan Jun 28, 2017 ▶ 9:27 Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Insight
French-Owen: Codex approaches coding in unintuitive, AlphaGo-like ways
“It's interesting to see like Codex's personality shine through when writing code. I would say 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 syste…”
Calvin French-Owen Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 39:36 We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
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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.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 42:54 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2026 positive
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Hassabis: Three Conditions Enable AlphaFold-Style AI Breakthroughs
“The lesson I've learned from all the alpha projects we've done, specifically alpha go and alpha fold is I think the techniques we have and the problems I look like to look for are great in, if this, if the situation can be described as massive combinatorial se…”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 33:39 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2026 positive
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Hassabis: Thinking modes and chain of thought revive AlphaGo techniques
“Really you can think of a lot of The things we're doing today, all the leading models with thinking modes and chain of thought reasoning as aspects of what was sort of pioneered with AlphaGo coming back now.”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 7:12 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 7:47 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
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