AlphaGo Zero

AlphaGo Zero

Work

by David Silver, Demis Hassabis, Julian Schrittwieser, Karen Simonyan, Aja Huang · 2017

Heard in 5 episodes across 4 shows since Feb 2026

AlphaGo Zero is a version of DeepMind's Go-playing AI that achieved superhuman performance by learning entirely through self-play without human data. It was introduced in the 2017 Nature paper "Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge" and surpassed all previous versions of AlphaGo within 40 days.

Episodes

5
across 4 shows

First heard

Feb 2026
AlphaGo Zero · PodLume