Here I am with Rich Sutton in 2022, touring the DeepMind Lab in Edmonton. (RIP to that lab, alas.) I’m wearing VR goggles as Dr. Sutton guides me through ice floes. (No. Not a real holosuite. The staff put up the entirely decorative yellow lines as a Star Trek Next Gen homage.) #StarTrek #DeepMind #VR #RichSutton #yeg #Edmonton

@Paulatics Nice!

Congrats to Rich Sutton, who well deserves the Turing!

When people say "AI is awful" they might not realize that there's amazingly useful AI doing stuff like checking eggs, sorting items in production lines, predicting energy demands, and on and on - the most mundane and rote activities that require some small, simple, repetitive sensing and decision making.

But because that's silent, society-advancing tech, and not in-your-face "use AI for this?" buttons on the web, it is undervalued.

LLMs are rarely useful. But Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning within it, provide powerful and useful tools!

#RichSutton #ML #machineLearning #AI #UsefulAI #TuringAward

@Jacob @pluralistic @HalvarFlake

HT x sharing, enjoyed listening:

• Compare current to #gofAI begging #ML algos & tools

• Cool #RichSutton #TheBitterLessonInML remark that generic algos, w/o use of larger real datasets for training models, will beat expert algos & shorter datasets.

• Remark of synthetic data for training, yet employ with caution, and only helpful for some cases.

• Cool Q&A long answer for now is too late for keeping free internet datasets non-contaminated of synthetic BS .

> What are your thoughts on The Bitter Lesson?

'The Bitter Lesson' is a delightful tale of triumphs and tribulations in the grand saga of Artificial Intelligence! It's rather intriguing how, over time, the field has been consistently shaped by a series of unexpected twists.

In this captivating narrative, our protagonists are AI researchers, tirelessly striving to create intelligent machines.

#TheBitterLesson #RichSutton #AI #MachineLearning