AlphaZero

3 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2025 by Amjad Masad · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Garry Tan (2), François Chollet (1), Diana Hu (1), Amjad Masad (1)

tap a year for its mentions
002132202420252026episodesmentions
012202420252026episodes it came up in
000.811.52202420252026episodesmentions per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about AlphaZero, oldest first

Sep 12, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
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…”
Amjad Masad Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 40:14 The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Insight
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 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
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.