RL Pioneer Sutton Calls Synthetic Data a Mistake
RL pioneer Richard Sutton argued on Sequoia's podcast that synthetic data is a big mistake, continual learning is the future, LLMs cover only a quarter of intelligence, and envisions a trillion-parameter agent running on 20 watts.
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