Rich Sutton

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2025 by Nathan Lambert · across every show →

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Nov 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lambert: Rich Sutton's RL theories are impractical for models like GPT-6
“Rich is a font of wonderful ideas, but Often not ones that are going to be immediately practical. This is how you get things like creating reinforcement learning, but not necessarily things that are going to impact what GPT six is.”
Nathan Lambert Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 45:11 Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Insight
Pre-training models on language before reinforcement learning is the correct architecture
“Having the model have a prior of language and being able to like, think in language and then train on top of that, that seems like clearly the right. The right thing to do.”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 31:16 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Insight
Dan Roberts: AI scaling requires novel algorithms, not just pure compute
“It's not that scale is all you need. You need to also have good ideas to guide the scaling.”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 31:56 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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