GPT-4: The Bitterer Lesson

<a href="http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Sutton’s Bitter Lesson</a> is, simplifying, that in the long-term it’s always better to let computation take the burden of finding greater AI systems (through learning or search algorithms) instead of trying to find them ourselves by leveraging our knowledge. In Sutton’s view, humans have contributed little to the best AI systems we’ve built: We’ve become background characters to this show of artificial phenomena that succeeds not because of us (sometimes even despite us and our sense of self-importance), rather than the intelligent architects of the future we thought we’d be. This Sutton asserted almost two years ago (March 2019). He wasn’t short of evidence and good arguments to defend his point, which, if true, is certainly bitter. <a href="https://medium.com/@albertoromgar/gpt-4-the-bitterer-lesson-79d09843b66">Read More</a>