The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

# AI Pioneer Says Current AI Development Is Heading in the Wrong Direction David Silver, the researcher who created AlphaGo (the AI that beat world champions at the game Go), has started a new company with major funding to build a different kind of AI system he calls "superlearners." Silver believes the AI industry is currently pursuing the wrong approach, and his new venture aims to prove there's a better way to develop artificial intelligence.