Lex Fridman interviews David Silver for the Artificial Intelligence podcast..

David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement learning.

Time Index:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 4:09 – First program
• 11:11 – AlphaGo
• 21:42 – Rule of the game of Go
• 25:37 – Reinforcement learning: personal journey
• 30:15 – What is reinforcement learning?
• 43:51 – AlphaGo (continued)
• 53:40 – Supervised learning and self play in AlphaGo
• 1:06:12 – Lee Sedol retirement from Go play
• 1:08:57 – Garry Kasparov
• 1:14:10 – Alpha Zero and self play
• 1:31:29 – Creativity in AlphaZero
• 1:35:21 – AlphaZero applications
• 1:37:59 – Reward functions
• 1:40:51 – Meaning of life