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Important both as a researcher and as an institution builder whose long-running agenda tied deep RL, multimodal systems, and scientific AI into one coherent lab strategy.
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Editor reviewedDavid Silver
Deep RL, planning, games
Research leader at Google DeepMind
A central figure in modern reinforcement learning whose work turned deep RL from an exciting idea into a line of systems that repeatedly reset expectations.
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March 18, 2026
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Deep reinforcement learning
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AlphaGo and game-playing systems
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Model-based RL systems like MuZero
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Deep RL, planning, games
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Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search (AlphaGo)
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DeepMind
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