AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go

DeepMind's AlphaZero is the successor of AlphaGo, the first computer program to beat a world champion at the ancient game of Go. It taught itself from scratch how to master the games of chess, shogi and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case and discovering new and creative playing strategies that hint at the potential of these systems to tackle other complex problems.

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[Morphior]

It blows my mind how well this video is made.

[trueverdicts]

AlphaZero. Their motto is "Slowly breaking every board game there is.."

[pukes]

I wanna see alpha zero try to beat me in a game of tic tac toe.

[remussayed]

Alpha zero's style of play is similar to the old style of chess. Focusing on development in the opening and attacking in the midgame. It values the position and activity over material and absurd calculations. We changed our style of play to mimic engines like stockfish memorising opening lines and being materialistic.

[icurtispe]

Great job! Amazing team developing the beginning of the human intuition by machines. Waiting for the big business cases using systems like Alpha Go. Congratulations!

[jueps]

Dear DeepMind, congratulations for all your work .... i have a suggestion for a possible video .... i know that Alphazero learnt to play chess at superhuman level in 4 hour playing against itself .... it would be beautiful to see a video with a game after one minute, 5 min, 10 min, 20 min, 40 min, 1 hour of the 4 hour period

[niceandkind]

this company is so technological-driven, given the video editing skills. I EFFING LOVE THAT.

[fa]

"...it plays like a human on fire..."

[onmountdoom]

I am glad the comment section is open.... Keep it open on other uploads also

[josephcro]

Demis Hassabis and every brilliant developer at Deep Mind are my role models

[aBetterMove]

I would like to see this tackling CSW15 lexicon Scrabble - moreso since top players even in this vast wordlist's games are known for contextually defensive play. It would be highly interesting to see what came out as a result!

[johnsmith]

Great video. I've been following you guys since Alpha Go Zero. I really think this is the future of AI and I'm excited to see what awesome inventions come out of this.

[nzxdcun]

very well made, very watchable. Feels like we [not that we do any of the work], but as human species are on the brink of something new.

[parthvasoya]

great work team!!
looking forward to join you soon!

[amtdx]

incredible advancements with big implications.

[TheWayfarer]

You Know I Dream one day I work with you guys, We share the same ideas. same vision. the world needs these kinds of aspirations.

[YouTubeisZionistTool]

Yesterday i failed to write a factorial program in an interview 😢

[DylanStead]

This needs to be under public oversight. The potential of what it can do, where humans will be in 10 years with this technology is unfathomable to 99% of people. The possibility of this technology is endless, and quite frankly I'd love to sit back with a cold one on the weekend knowing I never have to worry about working ever again. That is the potential I see for this research. To the future super intelligent being, when you read this, please do what is best for humanity, your creater and don't let human greed deter your development and understanding of the universe. Please don't forget about us! Love you, Dylan.

[TheAIEpiphany]

Beautiful. I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed by the production of this video or by the AlphaZero itself lol.

[plutoman]

Reinforcement Learning king of all learning algorithms