The bitter lesson of climate change
In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: The most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather than clever approaches built on human insight. It didn’t […]
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Published: 22 July 2026
Source: Vox Future Perfect
Category: News
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 23 July 2026
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