The Bitter Lesson: Why Computation Trumps Hand-Coded Intelligence

In this Deep Dive, we unpack Rich Sutton's 2019 Bitter Lesson: over decades, AI breakthroughs favor general methods and scaled computation over hand-crafted knowledge. We trace examples from chess to Go to speech and vision, and discuss why meta-methods that learn and search at scale may be the key to future discovery.

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