Rich Sutton: Brute-force compute alone won't get you intelligence
AlexTensor · x · 2026-11-09
AI researchers and executives often invoke Sutton's "Bitter Lesson" to argue that more data and compute alone will reach AGI. Sutton himself pushed back, stating that brute-force computation is not enough for intelligence and clever new methods are still needed — the science of AI is far from finished.
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