Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto made key breakthroughs in reinforcement learning

Dawn Gaves, University of Alberta/Zinj Guo, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 Turing award, which is often called the Nobel prize of computing, for their fundamental work on ideas in machine learning that later proved crucial to the success of artificial intelligence models such as Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo.

Barto, who is now retired and…

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