David Silver
2 milestones · 2016–2017
Explore David Silver's contributions to AI across 2 milestones from 2016 to 2017, with the strongest concentration in competitions & benchmarks.
Chronology
AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol
DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players ever, 4-1 in a five-game match in Seoul. Go has more possible positions than atoms in the universe — brute force was impossible. AlphaGo used deep reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo tree search. In Game 2, AlphaGo played Move 37 — a move so creative that experts called it 'beautiful' and 'not a human move.'
AlphaGo Zero: Learning From Scratch
AlphaGo Zero achieved superhuman Go performance with ZERO human knowledge — no training data from human games, no hand-crafted features. It learned entirely through self-play, and within 40 days surpassed all previous versions, including the one that beat Lee Sedol.