Bitter lesson author Sutton: raw compute alone won't get us to intelligence
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-08
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, author of the "bitter lesson," reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling has "reward hacked the brains of a whole generation of scientists." A growing wave of startups is betting on exactly this gap.
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