The Bitter Lesson
An essay by Rich Sutton, Author's site, dated 13 March 2019. Date printed on the author's page.
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- The Bitter Lesson Author's site (incompleteideas.net) · published 2019-03-13 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 f1baabbabfde3e2a368104fe91cb7efcf3566e8a9dd2c5fe50ccd1d96ec1acb6). Current page dated March 13, 2019, retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes.
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- Capabilities will plateauSutton's essay of March 2019 states that the biggest lesson of seventy years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation, search and learning, are ultimately the most effective by a large margin, because the cost of computation keeps falling.2019-03-13 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capabilities will plateau: propositions page →
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