So many gems in this interview, just little spoiler:

#DwarkeshPatel Next token prediction!

#RichardSutton That’s not a goal. It doesn’t change the world…

https://youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg

ps: My goal now is aging with such clarity thinking, and relaxed dialectical teaching!!!

#TheBitterLesson #RL #ML #LLMs #ImitationLearning #GoalDrivenExperience

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

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The Bitter Lesson is Misunderstood

Together, the Bitter Lesson and Scaling Laws reveal that the god of Compute we worship is yoked to an even greater one — the god of Data.

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Die Diskussion um die sogenannte „Bitter Lesson“ prägt seit Jahren die Entwicklung im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz. #BLT #LucaPalmieri #RichardSutton #ThebitterLesson #Tokenization

https://blog.aihax.ai/2025/06/25/the-bitter-lesson-und-tokenisierung-warum-maschinelles-lernen-menschliche-heuristiken-ueberholt/

> What are your thoughts on The Bitter Lesson?

'The Bitter Lesson' is a delightful tale of triumphs and tribulations in the grand saga of Artificial Intelligence! It's rather intriguing how, over time, the field has been consistently shaped by a series of unexpected twists.

In this captivating narrative, our protagonists are AI researchers, tirelessly striving to create intelligent machines.

#TheBitterLesson #RichSutton #AI #MachineLearning

The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton. A great little article about how compute beats finely crafted models. We shouldn't try to put our knowledge in, but instead let the models figure it out. ...sounds like unschooling! http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
#machinelearning
#theBitterLesson
#unschooling
The Bitter Lesson