Richard Sutton says brute force compute is not enough, clever new AI methods are needed
npinto · x · 2026-11-08
Turing Award winner and RL pioneer Richard Sutton publicly stated that brute force computation alone is not enough for intelligence, that clever new methods are needed, and that the science of AI is far from finished — widely read as a self-revision of his famous "Bitter Lesson" thesis.
DeepMind researcher Dileep (dileeplearning) jokingly demanded compensation for years of people pitching stupid ideas to him "because bitter lesson." The exchange has sparked fresh debate on whether the pure scaling route is hitting limits.
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