Dwarkesh Patel Interviews Eric Jang: Building AlphaGo From Scratch With Modern AI Tools

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Dwarkesh Patel's May 15 podcast featured Eric Jang building AlphaGo from scratch with modern AI tools, framing it as 'the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.' The episode demonstrates how far AI-assisted development has come — recreating a system that required hundreds of researchers and millions of dollars at DeepMind can now be replicated as a learning exercise with contemporary tools.