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Lex Fridman
Oriol Vinyals, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind and former lead of the AlphaStar project, shares his journey from an amateur *StarCraft* player in Spain during the late 1990s to creating AI agents that defeated world-class professionals. His early interest was driven by video games rat …
Lex Fridman
David Silver, a lead researcher at DeepMind and architect of AlphaGo and AlphaZero, recounts his journey from childhood fascination with computers to revolutionizing artificial intelligence through deep reinforcement learning. His early interest in AI was sparked by playing board games like Go, whic …
Lex Fridman
In 2020, amidst significant global challenges, DeepMind announced a major breakthrough with AlphaFold 2, claiming to solve the fifty-year-old grand challenge of protein folding. The system achieved prediction performance comparable to much slower and expensive experimental methods like X-ray crystal …
Lex Fridman
Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, recounts his journey from a young chess prodigy to an AI pioneer, detailing how early experiences with games like *Theme Park* and *Black & White* shaped his understanding of artificial intelligence as a tool for learning. He explains that while the or …
Lex Fridman
In a unique blend of intellectual competition and philosophical discussion, Lex Fridman engages Demis Hassabis in a game of chess that serves as both an entertainment segment and a deep dive into artificial intelligence development. The match begins with standard English Opening protocols, where Has …