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

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.
Nature

Competitive swarm reinforcement learning improves stability and performance of deep reinforcement learning

Reinforcement Learning (RL) enable agents to learn from interactions with their environment by mapping environmental states to actions, aiming to maximize the value of received feedback signals. The ...
ZDNet

True agentic AI is years away - here's why and how we get there

Today's AI agents don't meet the definition of true agents. Key missing elements are reinforcement learning and complex memory. It will take at least five years to get AI agents where they need to be.