The OaK Architecture: A Vision of SuperIntelligence from Experience

The constructive half of Sutton’s refusal. If LLMs are a dead end, what is the road? His RLC 2025 keynote lays out OaK — Options and Knowledge — an architecture where an agent builds its own abstractions from run-time experience: no pretraining corpus, no human-curated knowledge, everything learned one step at a time from the stream of life. This is the talk that became a lab: within a year of giving it, Sutton left Keen Technologies and founded Oak Lab to build exactly this.