AI Paradigm Shift: Rich Sutton, ‘Bitter Lesson’ Author, Signals Doubts on Pure LLM Scaling
AI Paradigm Shift: Rich Sutton, ‘Bitter Lesson’ Author, Signals Doubts on Pure LLM Scaling In a significant development shaking the foundations of AI research, Rich Sutton, the influential Turing Award winner and author of the widely cited 2019 essay ‘The Bitter Lesson,’ appears to have publicly shifted his stance on the future of pure large language models (LLMs). Sutton’s original essay, often interpreted as a rally cry for scaling general-purpose methods in AI, had been a cornerstone for advocates of…