Lex Fridman Podcast

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

Apr 29, 2019

Oriol Vinyals, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, revolutionizes AI with his groundbreaking research in deep learning. He discusses his journey from a gamer to leading the AlphaStar project, which outsmarted professional StarCraft players. Vinyals dives into the challenges of reinforcement learning, the significance of self-play in AI training, and the interplay between gaming and natural language processing. He also explores the future of AI, including its applications in gaming and the delicate balance required for interpreting neural networks.

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Intro

2min

Strategic Depth in StarCraft and AI Evolution

21min

Reinforcement Learning in StarCraft: AlphaStar's Approach

10min

AI Training Through Self-Play and Imitation

12min

Mastering StarCraft: Protoss Strategies and AI Breakthroughs

20min

Exploring New Frontiers: Applications Beyond AlphaStar

2min

Exploring the Turing Test and AI Advancements

12min

Exploring the Intersection of Images and Language in Neural Networks

2min

Navigating AI in StarCraft and Beyond

19min

10.

Exploring Knowledge Graphs and Their Applications in Deep Learning

2min

11.

Exploring AI's Future in Gaming and Opponent Understanding

3min

Oriol Vinyals is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that he was at Google Brain and Berkeley. His research has been cited over 39,000 times. He is one of the most brilliant and impactful minds in the field of deep learning. He is behind some of the biggest papers and ideas in AI, including sequence to sequence learning, audio generation, image captioning, neural machine translation, and reinforcement learning. He is a co-lead (with David Silver) of the AlphaStar project, creating an agent that defeated a top professional at the game of StarCraft. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.

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