Listen "OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety"
Episode Synopsis
We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI.
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Featuring:Wojciech Zaremba – Website, GitHub, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Woj’s talk at O’Reilly AI
OpenAI
OpenAI blog
The Dota playing team of AIs from OpenAI
Microsoft Tay Chatbot
Reinforcement learning Wikipedia
Berkeley course CS294-112 on Reinforcement learning. Includes pdf notes and YouTube videos of the lectures.
Books
“Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
“Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction” by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
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