Sutton, the Father of Reinforcement Learning: Large Language Models Are Not the Path to General Artificial Intelligence
Richard Sutton, a Turing Award laureate, pioneer in the field of reinforcement learning, and key contributor to policy gradient algorithms and temporal difference learning, is known in the industry as the “Father of Reinforcement Learning.” In late September 2025, this key founder of large language models expressed profound skepticism about the current development path of such models in a public interview, stating bluntly that the technological approach exemplified by ChatGPT is not the ultimate answer to achieving true intelligence. ...