Richard Sutton's 'brute force isn't enough' gets the meme treatment
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-10
A viral joke asks which person would least likely update even if AIs proved major math conjectures with current architectures by late 2026 — answer: Rich Sutton, who just reiterated that brute-force computation isn't enough for intelligence. The bit plays on his long-standing contrarian stance against pure scaling, keeping the compute-vs-methods debate alive.
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