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Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences by Lex Fridman

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

from Lex Fridman Podcast

by Lex Fridman

Published: Mon Apr 29 2019

Show Notes

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.