Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 29, 2019

Duration

1h 46m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

Watch on YouTube

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Oriol Vinyals

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Oriol Vinyals, Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20 explores deepMind’s AlphaStar: StarCraft Mastery, Language Roots, and Future AI Oriol Vinyals discusses leading DeepMind’s AlphaStar project, the first StarCraft II system to beat top professional players, and explains why StarCraft is a uniquely challenging testbed for AI compared to Go or Atari.

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