Richard Sutton
Professor, University of Alberta; co-founder, Oak Lab · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Father of modern reinforcement learning, author of 'The Bitter Lesson' and 2024 Turing Award winner; co-founded the startup Oak Lab in 2026.
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- Rich Sutton publishes "The Bitter Lesson": general methods that scale with compute win ★★★★
On March 13, 2019 reinforcement-learning pioneer Rich Sutton published the short essay "The Bitter Lesson". It argues that the biggest lesson of 70 years of AI research is that general methods leveraging computation (search and learning) ultimately beat approaches that build in human knowledge…
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