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#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

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Is There a Ceiling for Alpha Zero?

How far is your intuition about these kinds of self play mechanisms being able to take us? Because it feels one of the ominous, but stated calmly things that when I talked to David Silver. He said they have not yet discovered a ceiling for alpha zero on the game of Go or Chess. It keeps no matter how much the computer they throw at it, it keeps improving. But notice it's not getting better at other things, it's getting better at Go. And so we know that there's a range of human nobility levels that cap out with the best playing humans and computers went a step beyond that.

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