David Silver and Lasse Espeholt left DeepMind to test an uncomfortable idea: that human-language reasoning is a ceiling rather than a foundation. Their startup, Ineffable Intelligence, is building a superlearner that begins knowing nothing and discovers science through direct experience instead of a pre-training run. Silver puts strong evidence a year out and superintelligence at three.
Ineffable Intelligence founders on betting against human data
Two DeepMind veterans explain why they are building an AI that starts from zero experience rather than human data.
