What I Read: Revisiting Sutton’s Bitter Lesson for AI

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Compute Goes Brrr: Revisiting Sutton’s Bitter Lesson for Artificial Intelligence
Marketing, October 27, 2020


“The main driver of AI progress, according to Sutton, is the increasing availability of compute applied to simple learning and search algorithms…. Brooks and Whiteson argue that in fact, all the examples used by Sutton as free from human priors are in fact the fruit of substantial human ingenuity…. A remarkable exception from the trends noted in The Bitter Lesson can be seen in the AlphaGo family of game playing agents…”