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20162010s
Organizations
DeepMindUniversity College London
Major Achievements
- •Led the team that built AlphaGo, the first AI to defeat a human professional Go player (2016).
- •Designed AlphaZero (2017), which mastered Go, Chess, and Shogi entirely through self-play without human data.
- •Proved that deep reinforcement learning could conquer domains previously thought intractable.
Key Papers
- Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
David Silver · Nature · 2016
- A General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm that Masters Chess, Shogi, and Go through Self-Play
David Silver · Science · 2018
Videos
AlphaZero and Self Play (David Silver, DeepMind) | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
Is human data enough? | David Silver
Google DeepMind