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An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI "super learner" using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

The architect of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology

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