David Silver and Richard Sutton say AI is entering an era of experience
willccbb · x · 2026-07-22
David Silver and Richard Sutton argue AI is entering an “era of experience”
The attached paper preview says a new generation of agents will gain superhuman capabilities primarily by learning from experience, rather than only from static pretraining.
- The note frames this as a new phase in AI, not just a model update.
- It focuses on the defining characteristics of this coming era for agents.
- The post itself adds a bullish read on RL environments as the practical substrate for that shift.
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