@RichardSSutton: The bitter lesson in 26 words: Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically. Instead focus on me…
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Richard Sutton summarizes his bitter lesson: AI should focus on scalable methods like search and learning rather than on incorporating human knowledge.
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The bitter lesson in 26 words:
Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically. Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.
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