University of Cambridge
University of Alberta
Thore GraepelResearcher
UCL
Chair of Machine Learning
via UCL
Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
David Silver
Founder and CEO at Ineffable Intelligence
Professor at UCL
Silver led AlphaGo, which defeated a world champion at Go, and AlphaZero, which learned chess, shogi, and Go largely through self-play. These systems showed that reinforcement learning could discover powerful strategies from experience, an approach he is now extending beyond games through Ineffable Intelligence.
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Current roles
Founder and CEO 2025-presentIneffable Intelligence
Ineffable IntelligenceProfessorUCL
UCLPreviously
2013-2026Head of Reinforcement Learning, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind1998-2005Co-founder, Elixir Studios
Born1976
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