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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

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Richard Sutton takes a different view in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel[2]

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What it covers

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Richard Sutton, reinforcement learning pioneer, Turing Award winner and author of The Bitter Lesson. Sutton argues LLMs are a dead end because. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

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Channel
Dwarkesh Patel
Length
1 hr 7 min
Year
2025
Open on YouTube

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