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In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo
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Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that aims to build more general forms of AI superintelligence.
Key facts
- Ineffable Intelligence has so far raised $1.1 billion in seed funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion—an enormous sum by European AI standards
- In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry
- Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that aims to build more general forms of AI superintelligence
- David Silver gave the world its first glimpse of superintelligence
Summary
In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry. This approach stands in contrast to how most AI companies plan to build superintelligence, by exploiting the coding and research capabilities of large-language models. Silver, speaking to WIRED from his office in London, says he thinks this approach will fail. “Human data is like a kind of fossil fuel that has provided an amazing shortcut,” Silver says.