While attending the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, Chris met up with Adam Stooke, a speaker and PhD student at UC Berkeley who is doing groundbreaking work in large-scale deep reinforcement learning and robotics. Adam took Chris on a tour of deep reinforcement learning - explaining what it is, how it works, and why it’s one of the hottest technologies in artificial intelligence!
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Featuring:Adam Stooke – GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
NVIDIA GTC: Doing More with More: Recent Achievements in Large-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning
Accelerated Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Accelerated Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning - code
OpenAI Five - Dota 2
AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Crunchbase
The Hertz Foundation

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