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#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Open AI

Almost every chestmaster now studies computer games for inspiration. Most people, when they want to study the most perfect games, they actually study programs like Alpha Zero. There's a certain element there where even our human brains can be trained by observing the partial explorations of an AI systems in the space of grappling. If it constructs officially good biomechanical models of human beings, machines can learn how they grapple. I've been very surprised and a little bit disappointed by how difficult it's to build a system that's able to have the body of Gordon Ryan or a human being.

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