David Silver
Architect of AlphaGo
AlphaGo, AlphaZero and learning without human data
Rating
92Impact score
Domains
Reinforcement learningSearchSelf-play
Scouting report
Led the AlphaGo work that beat Lee Sedol in 2016, a result the field had expected to be a decade away, then AlphaZero — which threw away the human games entirely and taught itself Go, chess and shogi from the rules. His RL lecture series, free on YouTube, taught the subject to a generation.
Curator’s note
Showed that removing the human data made it stronger, not weaker.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of David Silver by David Silver, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01David Silver en.wikipedia.org
- 02Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge (2017) nature.com