David Silver

And then, of course, that culminated in AlphaGo, which was the always our aim.

Uh, Dave Silver and I, who's head of that project, we were undergrad friends as undergrads at Cambridge, and we were disc- had been discussing it since our undergrad-

Mm

... about, um, uh, we, you know, we were there in the mid-'90s.

How so?

Well, David Silver, who was Demis Hassabis's early partner and essentially the pioneer of reinforcement learning.

The technology that allowed AI to beat human champions at the game of Go, right?

Exactly that tech.

You can have all the money and server racks in the world, but when the underlying scientific paradigm shifts beneath your feet, if you can't adapt structurally, your talent will simply leave to build the future somewhere else.

And as we wrap up, there is one final, almost haunting thought from the sources that I want to leave you with.

It goes back to David Silver, reinforcement learning pioneer who just left DeepMind.

He recently co-authored a fascinating paper with his old professor titled Welcome to the Era of Experience.