Brandon is back and we talk at length about how AlphaGo works and what the implications are, such that we can see with our feeble human minds.

hour-long talk by Demis Hassabis explaining DeepMind including how general it is (skip 1st 5 minutes – AlphaGo begins around 27:30, includes history of go, how to play, why it’s hard for computers, 36:30 – 54:30 is technical part of how AlphaGo works (after that is real-world applications and ethics), Q&A starts 57:00

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