Richard Sutton clip goes viral: hiring is a temporal difference problem
professor_ajay · x · 2026-11-05
professorajay shares a Richard Sutton interview clip framing candidate selection as a reinforcement learning problem: hiring is "a sequence of guesses trained by later guesses." The AI community is sharing it as both a meme and a clever RL analogy.
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