AlphaGo's David Silver Bets on RL Over LLMs — SkimNews
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- David Silver, described as the architect of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo, has founded a startup called Ineffable focused on building an AI "super learner," according to a Financial Times interview.
- Ineffable is pursuing reinforcement learning (RL) as an alternative path to LLMs, centered on machines that can teach themselves, per the FT interview.
Why it matters: Silver's pedigree at DeepMind — where he led the AlphaGo project — gives Ineffable unusual credibility in the RL camp at a moment when the vast majority of AI investment flows toward scaling large language models, making this a high-profile philosophical and commercial bet against the dominant paradigm.
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