Rich Sutton: Language may only be 20-25% of intelligence
haider1 · x · 2026-08-21
Turing Award winner Rich Sutton critiques the current focus on LLMs. While acknowledging them as an amazing scientific breakthrough, he finds it frustrating that LLMs are treated as if they represent all of AI. Sutton argues that language accounts for only 20-25% of intelligence, implying there is much more to discover beyond linguistic models.
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