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PodcastTraining DataOctober 13, 2026

David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience

Ineffable Intelligence bets that pure experience-based RL in simulation, not LLM pretraining, reaches superintelligence — Silver forecasts within three years.

  • Learning-from-experience bet: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers David Silver and Lasse Espeholt, rejects human-data pretraining, betting agents that start knowing nothing will surpass LLMs by discovering science, math and language themselves.
  • AlphaGo precedent: Silver says two years of human-data-based AlphaGo was beaten by AlphaZero (no human data) in hours-to-days — chess champion beaten in four hours, Go in a couple of days.

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