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Deep Reinforcement Learning (Practical AI #40)
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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Notes and Links
- 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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