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Brandon Tseng

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

These autonomous systems are doing the exact same thing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

And just like we learn from our experiences, these things are learning from their experiences.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Yeah, so one of the principal ways that we developed a methodology called reinforcement learning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

And so this was pioneered, there's probably like academic papers, I would say like it became pretty famous with like AlphaGo, AlphaStar, where it was, they would put these AlphaGo, you know, beat a world champion at the game of Go, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

It's any time, reinforcement learning is really,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

and a good learning methodology when the number of variables or outcomes are massive, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

And they multiple like trillions of outcomes, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Which I couldn't bring up what the outcomes of the game of Go are, but right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

you know, it's almost uncountable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Right.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Same thing with like the game of Starcraft, which was alpha star.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

It's like the number of like moves are uncountable in terms of like the number of scenarios.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

That's where you find something like reinforcement learning really shine right in the real world.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

The number of moves that you have are uncountable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

Um, and so.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

So what you're doing is you're taking, you know, you basically give it a goal.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

And then behaviors that you believe are positive, you reinforce those behaviors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

You reward those behaviors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun

And then things that are negative, like you don't reward those behaviors.