Lessons in 3D, Jonathan T. Barron, Workshop on Bitter Lessons, CVPR 2026 - YouTube

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A recording of my talk at CVPR 2026's "Workshop on Bitter Lessons." Some of the slide content overlaps with my 3DV talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlF33JZbA0), this is intended to be a more narrowly scoped and refined version of a subset of that talk. Hi, I'm John Baron. I'm a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. And this was a talk I originally gave at the bitter lessons workshop at CVPR 2026 earlier this summer. It's about how exactly the bitter lesson applies to 3D. So when I started coming to CVPR, it was around 2008 and I was immediately drawn to what was uh then a…

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