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Richard Sutton
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Richard Sutton argues LLMs predict what people say rather than what the world will do, making next-token prediction a poor starting point for AGI and rejecting imitation as an experiential-RL scaffold.Sutton expects scalable systems that learn through sensation, action, and reward to expose LLMs as another Bitter Lesson casualty, while “we're not seeing transfer anywhere” and digitally spawned agents raise unresolved cybersecurity risks.