DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Key takeaways
- A professor at University College London, Silver was until recently leading the reinforcement learning team at Google-owned DeepMind, where he spent more than a decade before leaving to found this new venture.
- Similarly, Ineffable Intelligence hopes that its superlearner will discover all knowledge from its own experience.
- Its superlearner may lack experience, but the company doesn’t lack ambition.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former Deep Mind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race for novel AI models that could outperform large language models.
According to its newly launched site, Ineffable aims to create a “superlearner” capable of discovering knowledge and skills without relying on human data by leveraging reinforcement learning a technique in which AI systems learn through trial and error rather than studying human-generated examples. This is Silver’s area of expertise.
A professor at University College London, Silver was until recently leading the reinforcement learning team at Google-owned DeepMind, where he spent more than a decade before leaving to found this new venture.