Disentangled Representations & Google Research Football with Olivier Bachem

Today we're joined by Olivier Bachem, a research scientist at Google AI on the Brain team. Olivier joins us to discuss his work on Google's research football project, their foray into building a novel reinforcement learning environment. Before we get there, we spend a fair amount of time exploring his research in disentangled representations. Olivier and Sam discuss what makes the football environment different than the other available reinforcement learning environments like OpenAI Gym and PyGame, what other techniques they explored while using this environment, and what's on the horizon for their team and Football RLE.