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Google DeepMind Veteran Raises $1.1 Billion For AI That Doesn't Train On Human Data Authored by Jason Nelson via decrypt.io, In brief DeepMind veteran David Silver raised $1.1 billion for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver says reinforcement learning, not large language models, is the best path to superintelligence. The startup aims to build AI “superlearners” that learn through simulations and self-play. David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo’s historic 2016 win over world Go champion Lee Sedol, has raised $1.1 billion to launch a startup betting that the next...

“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not “safety” or “taxes”; it was “freedom.” Yet, two intolerable […]

Net Zero & Statism Deliver Stagnation: How Interventionism Undermined Growth In The UK & Canada Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Governments are terrible at picking winners and even worse at choosing losers. Net zero and interventionist “Keynesian” policies in Canada and the UK have proven that government intervention has created a worse outcome than anyone would have expected. The result is higher costs, distorted incentives, and weakened productivity growth, with increased dependency on fossil fuels to attend to peak demand, exactly what Austrian economists predicted. What has been sold as a recipe for...