This is fascinating: Rich Sutton on the "bitter lesson" of AI research: incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bitte
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I think it's actually wrong in some important ways - Deep Blue was far from brute force alone. It involved > 8,000 features, many of them hand-engineered on the basis of deep chess expertise, exactly the kind of thing he dismisses.
Still, it's a very striking set of assertions
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I found this essay very striking, too. I found it via —you might enjoy his (maximalist, yes!) comments around it if you haven't seen. gwern.net/newsletter/201
