The Bitter Lesson Conditions
A modest proposal for revolutionising everything.
The hard truth of AI is that methods that exploit deep, hard-won human knowledge about a particular domain are outperformed by methods that cleverly exploit the increasing power of computation.
I have a modest proposal to distill this fundamental truth into a set of conditions which, when met, will revolutionise a given field.
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I do not claim this insight about the fundamental mechanism of progress in AI as original; I have been heavily influenced by Richard Sutton’s powerful essay The Bitter Lesson.