David Silvers Superintelligence Revolution with Ineffable
Tech David Silvers Superintelligence Revolution with Ineffable DeepMind‘s legendary scientist David Silver, the man who made history with AlphaGo’s 2016 victory over Go champion Lee Sedol, has sprung into action to reshape the future of artificial intelligence. He has secured $1.1 billion in investment for his new venture Ineffable Intelligence and established the company in January with a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver is challenging the dominance of large language models by positioning reinforcement learning as the true key to superintelligence. With this method, AI systems evolve through trial and error, accumulating their own experiences without relying on human data through reward-based optimization using algorithms like Q-learning and policy gradients. The venture aims to develop “superlearners” that pursue goals within simulations and progress by playing against themselves. Silvers Career and Superintelligence Vision Silvers career forms the foundation of this vision; while developing AlphaGo at DeepMind, he blended human data with reinforcement learning and self-play to produce unexpected strategies. He describes large language models as “fossil fuel” based on human-sourced data and uses the “renewable source” analogy for unlimited learning. In his Wired interview, he defined their missions as “first contact with superintelligence”; he expects this intelligence to produce innovations on its own in fields like