Richard Sutton pushes back on the Bitter Lesson: brute force isn't enough for intelligence
dbreunig · x · 2026-11-08
Quoting a post declaring "the bitterest lesson eventually won out," RL pioneer Richard Sutton counters that brute-force computation alone isn't enough for intelligence — clever new methods are still needed, and the science of AI is far from finished. A succinct installment in the ongoing scale-vs-algorithms debate.
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