2007 video resurfaces: Larry Page anticipated the Bitter Lesson 20 years early
juanbenet · x · 2026-11-10
A 2007 clip of Larry Page has resurfaced, showing he articulated the core idea behind the Bitter Lesson nearly two decades ago: scaling compute with general methods beats hand-crafted approaches. The video is being shared as an early prediction of the principle that came to define the deep learning era.
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