MACHINE AGE CARTOON

FROM LEARNING TO ALPHAZERO

By Zimbo · October 7, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Sunday strip: 2004 RL PhD with Rich Sutton at Alberta; 2013 joins DeepMind's RL program; 2016 AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4-1; 2017 AlphaGo Zero learns Go from pure self-play; 2018 AlphaZero masters chess, shogi and Go; 2026 kicker: Silver bins the HUMAN GAME RECORDS books.
David Silver took a 2004 reinforcement-learning PhD with Rich Sutton to DeepMind, built AlphaGo, taught machines to learn without copying humans — then walked out in 2026 to found Ineffable Intelligence on the bet that experience, not text, is the road to superintelligence. In six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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