AlphaGo, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AlphaGo comes up
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…
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
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.
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.