AlphaGo's Creator Raised $1.1 Billion on One Idea: AI That Doesn't Learn From Humans Will Beat AI That Does

David Silver — the researcher who taught AlphaGo to beat the world's best Go player without human examples — left DeepMind to build Ineffable Intelligence, a London lab with $1.1 billion in seed funding and a single thesis: reinforcement learning, not human data, is the path to superintelligence.