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Richard Sutton
Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson.
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2025
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Dwarkesh Podcast / September 26, 2025 / Episode #93
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
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Richard Sutton
Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson.
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September 26, 2025 to September 26, 2025
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