silver

Definition

A surname: David Silver of DeepMind, the researcher behind the AlphaGo and AlphaZero line of self-play reinforcement learning and a prominent advocate of the view that reward maximisation alone can account for intelligence. In a title or citation string it is an author name, not the metal or the colour — a distinction worth making explicitly when scanning automatically extracted word lists.

Explainers using this term

• AlphaGo from Scratch — The Marriage of Search and LearningMastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search (Silver et al.