Sutton pushes back on the Bitter Lesson: brute force alone won't yield intelligence
giannis_daras · x · 2026-11-10
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton argued that brute force computation is not enough for intelligence — clever new methods are still needed, and "the science of AI is far from finished."
Tkaraletsos called it "The Bittersweet Lesson," a notable revision of the famous Bitter Lesson thesis Sutton co-authored, reigniting the debate between scaling compute and methodological innovation.
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