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Gaining insight & expertise by playing video games
00:00 - 05:22 (05:22)
A Starcraft player talks about the benefits of playing with the game's three races and how it can help you understand the nuances and strategies of each. He compares the game to chess and emphasizes the importance of understanding the board/map.
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Ariol Vinalis, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, discusses his work in deep learning, including his leadership on the Alpha Star Project which created an AI agent that defeated a top professional player at Starcraft.
00:00 - 01:48 (01:48)
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Ariol Vinalis, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, discusses his work in deep learning, including his leadership on the Alpha Star Project which created an AI agent that defeated a top professional player at Starcraft. He talks about his love for programming and video games and his work on sequence-to-sequence learning, audio generation, image captioning, and neural machine translation.
ChapterGaining insight & expertise by playing video games
EpisodeOriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, shares how he spent his early days playing Starcraft and reveals his strategy for playing the game which involved playing all three races.
01:48 - 02:53 (01:04)
Summary
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, shares how he spent his early days playing Starcraft and reveals his strategy for playing the game which involved playing all three races.
ChapterGaining insight & expertise by playing video games
EpisodeOriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
This transcript offers a detailed explanation of the complexities in playing Starcraft, including managing resources, scouting for information, and understanding the different races within the game.
02:53 - 05:22 (02:29)
Summary
This transcript offers a detailed explanation of the complexities in playing Starcraft, including managing resources, scouting for information, and understanding the different races within the game.