DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

# A Top AI Researcher Just Got $1.1 Billion to Build a Different Kind of AI David Silver, a leading researcher who previously worked at Google's DeepMind lab, has started a new company and secured over a billion dollars in funding to develop AI that can learn and improve on its own without needing humans to train it with examples and data. This is a big bet by investors that his approach could be fundamentally better than how most AI systems work today.