Go to Zero
DeepMind: The Podcast
English - August 20, 2019 09:30 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 169 ratingsScience Technology hannah fry future technology artificial intelligence machine learning science deepmind Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In March 2016, more than 200 million people watched AlphaGo become first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone in AI research that was considered to be a decade ahead of its time. Since then the team has continued to develop the system and recently unveiled AlphaZero: a program that has taught itself how to play chess, Go, and shogi. Hannah explores the inside story of both with Lead Researcher David Silver and finds out why games are a useful proving ground for AI researchers. She also meets Chess Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and women’s international master Natasha Regan, who have written a book on AlphaZero and its unique gameplay.
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Further reading
AlphaGo the documentary
The Surrounding Game: Documentary about the ancient game of Go
DeepMind website: AlphaGo
Garry Kasparov: Deep Thinking
AI: More than Human - Exhibition at the Barbican Centre, 2019 and online exhibit
DeepMind blog: AlphaZero: Shedding new light on chess, shogi, and Go
Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan: Game Changer - a book about chess and AI
WIRED: What the AI behind AlphaGo can teach us about being human
Interviewees: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Matthew Sadler, chess Grandmaster; Lead Researcher David Silver, Matt Botvinick, Director of Neuroscience Research; and Natasha Regan, women’s international chess master.
Credits:
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Editor: David Prest
Senior Producer: Louisa Field
Producers: Amy Racs, Dan Hardoon
Binaural Sound: Lucinda Mason-Brown
Music composition: Eleni Shaw (with help from Sander Dieleman and WaveNet)
Commissioned by DeepMind