Richard Sutton quotes on AI, with sources

Professor, University of Alberta · 5 quotes · latest Sep 26, 2025

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Sep 26, 2025	I do think succession to digital intelligence or augmented humans is inevitable.Sep 26, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Source
Sep 26, 2025	I think we should be proud that we are giving rise to this great transition in the universe.Sep 26, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Source
Sep 26, 2025	In which case, it will be another instance of the bitter lesson, that the things that used human knowledge were eventually superseded by things that just trained from experience and computation.Sep 26, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Source
Sep 26, 2025	Large language models are trying to get by without having a goal or a sense of better or worse. That’s just exactly starting in the wrong place.Sep 26, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Source
Sep 26, 2025	What we want, to quote Alan Turing, is a machine that can learn from experience, where experience is the things that actually happen in your life.Sep 26, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Source

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