Quotesby GlyphRichard Sutton quotes on AI, with sources
Professor, University of Alberta · 5 quotes · latest Sep 26, 2025
- I do think succession to digital intelligence or augmented humans is inevitable.
- I think we should be proud that we are giving rise to this great transition in the universe.
- 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which case, it will be another instance of the bitter lesson, that the things that used human knowledge were eventually superseded by things that just trained from experience and computation.
- 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.
- 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.
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