David Silver

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academic artificial intelligence researcher computer scientist machine learning researcher

David Silver is a leading artificial intelligence researcher best known for his work at DeepMind on reinforcement learning and the development of the AlphaGo system.

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David Silver canonical	12

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NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: David Silver
Context triple: [DeepMind, hasKeyPerson, David Silver]

A. Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired by Google.
B. Shane Legg
Shane Legg is a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as a co-founder of DeepMind and for his influential work on artificial general intelligence.
C. Ian Goodfellow
Ian Goodfellow is a machine learning researcher best known for inventing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and co-authoring the influential textbook "Deep Learning."
D. Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, known for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks.
E. John Schulman
John Schulman is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenAI and a key contributor to advances in deep reinforcement learning and large language models.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: David Silver
Target entity description: David Silver is a leading artificial intelligence researcher best known for his work at DeepMind on reinforcement learning and the development of the AlphaGo system.

A. Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired by Google.
B. Shane Legg
Shane Legg is a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as a co-founder of DeepMind and for his influential work on artificial general intelligence.
C. Ian Goodfellow
Ian Goodfellow is a machine learning researcher best known for inventing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and co-authoring the influential textbook "Deep Learning."
D. Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, known for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks.
E. John Schulman
John Schulman is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenAI and a key contributor to advances in deep reinforcement learning and large language models.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

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instanceOf	academic ⓘ artificial intelligence researcher ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ machine learning researcher ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in computer science ⓘ
citizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
coFounded	Elixir Studios ⓘ Playfish ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Satinder Singh ⓘ
educatedAt	University College London ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
employer	DeepMind ⓘ surface form: Google DeepMind
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence ⓘ deep learning ⓘ machine learning ⓘ reinforcement learning ⓘ
hasTaughtAt	University College London ⓘ
honor	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) ⓘ surface form: Fellow of the Royal Society
knownFor	AlphaZero ⓘ MuZero ⓘ deep reinforcement learning ⓘ leading development of AlphaGo ⓘ reinforcement learning research ⓘ work at DeepMind ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Society ⓘ
notablePaper	MuZero ⓘ surface form: Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model AlphaZero ⓘ surface form: Mastering chess and shogi by self-play with a general reinforcement learning algorithm AlphaGo ⓘ surface form: Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search MuZero ⓘ surface form: Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
notableWork	AlphaGo ⓘ AlphaGo Zero ⓘ AlphaZero ⓘ DQN-style deep reinforcement learning methods ⓘ MuZero ⓘ
position	principal research scientist at DeepMind ⓘ
publishedIn	Nature ⓘ Science ⓘ
receivedAward	ACM Prize in Computing ⓘ Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal ⓘ Royal Society Mullard Award ⓘ
researchInterest	Monte Carlo tree search ⓘ game-playing AI ⓘ model-based reinforcement learning ⓘ planning in reinforcement learning ⓘ
taughtCourse	UCL course on reinforcement learning ⓘ
thesisTopic	reinforcement learning ⓘ
worksAt	DeepMind ⓘ surface form: Google DeepMind

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DeepMind → hasKeyPerson → David Silver ⓘ

ACM Prize in Computing → notableRecipient → David Silver ⓘ

Atari deep Q-network → coAuthor → David Silver ⓘ

A3C → introducedBy → David Silver ⓘ

Prioritized Experience Replay DQN → proposedBy → David Silver ⓘ

DDPG → introducedBy → David Silver ⓘ

Double DQN → introducedBy → David Silver ⓘ

Jumper et al., Nature 2021 → hasAuthor → David Silver ⓘ

Volodymyr Mnih → coAuthorWith → David Silver ⓘ

Rainbow DQN → proposedBy → David Silver ⓘ

Ioannis Antonoglou → coAuthorWith → David Silver ⓘ

AlphaGo Zero → hasAuthor → David Silver ⓘ

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