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Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

Dwarkesh Podcast · 15 MAY 2026 · 157 min

Eric Jang explains how to build AlphaGo from scratch using modern AI tools, detailing the game of Go's rules and the core Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm. He describes how deep neural networks, specifically value and policy net…

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