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The Bitter Lesson
Richard S. Sutton · 2019 · incompleteideas.net
Seven hundred words arguing that general methods which scale with computation beat hand-built human knowledge — the most quoted essay in the AI circle.
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“The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.”
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