The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts

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2026-11-08
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Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling "has reward hacked brains of a whole generation of scientists." A growing wave of startups is already betting on exactly this gap. The article The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts appeared first on The Decoder .

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Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling "has reward hacked brains of a whole generation of scientists." A growing wave of startups is already betting on exactly this gap. The article The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts appeared first on The Decoder .

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