What Richard Sutton thinks about education

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Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning, co-author of the standard textbook, and winner of the 2024 Turing Award.

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1. 26 Sept 2025

   Our readingLearning is not training: a child learns by actively trying things and seeing what happens, not by being shown what to do.

   Their wordsSo I don't think uh learning is really about training. I think learning is about about learning. It's about an active process. The child tries things and sees what happens.

   ↗Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead endyoutube.com 8th of 25 in this recording