@phosphenq: He taught machines to learn. He won a Turing Award. Now he says we're building AI all wrong. "We want a path towards in…
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Turing Award winner Richard Sutton gives a 71-minute talk at MIT criticizing current AI development and advocating for self-taught, play-based, abstract learning as a path to superintelligence.
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He taught machines to learn. He won a Turing Award. Now he says we’re building AI all wrong.
“We want a path towards intelligence that isn’t limited by human abilities.”
In 71 minutes at MIT, Richard Sutton reveals what comes after the chatbot.
Self-taught + play + abstraction + superintelligence
Worth more than a year of AI roadmaps on your timeline
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