Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge.

That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver in the wake of Ineffable’s emergence from stealth last week.

“The next frontier of AI is superlearners — systems that learn continuously from experience,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We are thrilled to partner with Ineffable Intelligence to codesign the infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning as they push the frontier of AI and pioneer a new generation of intelligent systems.”

Silver is one of the pioneers of reinforcement learning, an approach that has transformed AI research. He’s focused on further developing this approach into a new paradigm.

“Researchers have largely solved the easier problem of AI: how to build systems that know all the things humans already know,” Silver said.…