Industry News | 8/23/2025

Sutton warns LLM obsession is a detour toward experiential AI

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton argues that industry focus on scaling large language models overlooks core principles of intelligence. He calls for agents that learn continuously from direct experience, emphasizing continual learning, world models, and meta-learning. Sutton’s Alberta Plan and Oak architecture are presented as paths toward embodied AI and AGI.