Sutton rejects the LLM path outright on Dwarkesh Podcast
Flatly rejected the LLM path on Dwarkesh Podcast — arguing that large language models imitate people rather than figure out what to do, and that because they make no predictions about what will happen next, they have no ground truth
Why it matters
The author of the Bitter Lesson himself declared that LLMs do not fit the Bitter Lesson. Ended a situation in which both camps cited the same text as support
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Pressdwarkesh.comhttps://www.dwarkesh.com/p/richard-suttonAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week