🎙️ Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where the frontier of research meets your earbuds, and ideas get a second look, a deeper dive, and maybe even a plot twist. I'm so glad you're here. Let's get into it. 🔍🧠Today, we’re not talking about what's happening next quarter or next year — we're talking about what might just redefine intelligence as we know it. This episode? It's all about The Era of Experience — and no, not your summer backpacking across Europe kind of experience… we're talking about how artificial intelligence is about to start learning like we do. 👀🤖You see, for a long time, AI has been binge-watching us humans — learning from our data, our conversations, our mistakes, and our memes. But what happens when it stops copying us and starts learning from its own experiences? 🧬💥That’s the question raised in this mind-bending position paper by David Silver and Professor Richard Sutton, two absolute giants in the field. 🏔️David Silver — the mastermind behind AlphaGo — is a principal scientist at Google DeepMind and a professor at UCL. And Professor Sutton? He’s a Turing Award-winning legend at the University of Alberta, best known for pioneering reinforcement learning. These aren’t just thinkers. These are the folks designing the blueprint of machine intelligence. 🔧📘💡In their upcoming chapter for the book Designing an Intelligence (MIT Press), they argue that the Era of Human Data — where machines learn by imitating us — is running out of steam. The next big leap? Machines that act, fail, adapt, and learn… from scratch. Just like babies figuring out how the world works. Only faster. Way faster. 🚀🍼🤯They call it the Era of Experience. And in this era, agents will interact with rich environments, receive grounded rewards, and develop the ability to reason, plan, and maybe even surpass us. That’s thrilling. And a little scary. But mostly thrilling. 😅🔥So here's what I’m wondering...🤔 If AI can now learn the way we learn, struggle the way we struggle, and grow the way we grow… does that make it more like us? Or something else entirely?Big thanks to David Silver and Professor Richard Sutton for this groundbreaking work, and to MIT Press for publishing such a forward-looking volume. 🙏📚If you loved this episode, hit that subscribe button on Spotify for more brain-tingling insights, and check out our full episodes on our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 🎥🔬We’re also streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts — so no matter where you listen, we've got you covered 🎧🍏📦This is Revise and Resubmit, where ideas evolve and the future is always up for discussion. Let’s keep rethinking what we thought we knew. 💭✨

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