Turing Award winner Sutton: language may be only 20-25% of intelligence
haider1 · x · 2026-08-21
Turing Award winner and RL pioneer Rich Sutton: LLMs are an amazing scientific breakthrough, but it's frustrating that instead of celebrating progress in a subset of AI, it has to pretend to be all of AI. He suggests language may be only 20-25% of intelligence—there's much more to intelligence, and "we're not done."
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