Show Notes
David Silver is a principal research scientist at DeepMind and a professor at University College London. This interview was recorded at UMass Amherst during RLC 2024. References Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Oh et al -- His keynote at RLC 2024 referred to more recent update to this work, yet to be published Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm, Silver et al 2017 -- the AlphaZero algo was used in his recent work on AlphaProof AlphaProof on the DeepMind blog AlphaFold on the DeepMind blog Reinforcement Learning Conference 2024 David Silver on Google Scholar
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