Richard Sutton, father of RL, thinks LLMs are a dead end
Interview by Dwarkesh Patel with Richard Sutton on LLMs, AGI and why he believes AGI will not be born from using LLMs.
In his essay The Bitter Lesson, he argues for not building AI from mimicking human behavior in our systems: "breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search and learning."