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Richard Sutton on AI

2 quotes from Richard Sutton on the wall, 2019 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include dwarkesh.com, incompleteideas.net.

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  1. 2025

  2. Large language models are about mimicking people

    News#science#culture

    Richard Sutton, father of reinforcement learning, contrasting LLMs with reinforcement learning on the Dwarkesh Podcast, September 2025.

    dwarkesh.comRichard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

  3. 2019

  4. The bitter lesson

    Canon#science

    Rich Sutton, 2019: general methods that leverage computation beat human-designed cleverness.

    incompleteideas.netThe Bitter Lesson