In some ways I feel sad for all the linguistics and NLP people, though the Bayesians had their day too. However after 20 years in RL I’m glad that RL (MDP solv

In some ways I feel sad for all the linguistics and NLP people, though the Bayesians had their day too. However after 20 years in RL I’m glad that RL (MDP solving) is finally coming into view as the primary generalist intelligence framework. People made fun of us RL people because the data/compute overhead but now that every robotic controller and system is becoming RL tuned it’s just going to chew its way through the whole computing stack eventually. I see so many people in AI burning out because they see all these narrow methods failing to generalize. Exciting times ahead.