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Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

Posted December 28, 2018 • 01:06:26

Tuomas Sandholm is a professor at CMU and co-creator of Libratus, which is the first AI system to beat top human players at the game of Heads-Up No-Limit...

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

Posted December 23, 2018 • 01:20:06

Juergen Schmidhuber is the co-creator of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) which are used in billions of devices today for speech recognition,...

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Posted December 16, 2018 • 00:42:56

Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on...

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

Posted December 9, 2018 • 01:26:27

Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that introduced me and millions of other people to AI,...

Eric Schmidt: Google

Posted December 4, 2018 • 00:33:18

Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and its executive chairman from 2011 to 2017, guiding the company through a period of incredible...