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Richard Sutton quote, Sep 26, 2025

Professor, University of Alberta · Sep 26, 2025 · Interview, Dwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

I do think succession to digital intelligence or augmented humans is inevitable.

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Richard Sutton, Professor, University of Alberta
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Dwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
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Superintelligence
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University of Alberta
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dwarkesh.com/p/richard-sutton

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