Sutton says brute-force compute won't yield intelligence; researcher laments scaling's toll on young scientists
eigenron · x · 2026-11-08
Richard Sutton argued that brute-force computation alone is not enough for intelligence — clever new methods are needed, and the science of AI is far from finished. Former OpenAI researcher @arohan quote-shared the remark, noting many young scientists stopped developing their own insights believing scaling transformers alone would suffice, and now feel defeated by "the bitter lesson." The exchange captures growing community reflection on the limits of pure scaling.
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