Turing Award, AI and reinforcement learning

AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments.
Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It’s now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in computer science.
AI Pioneers Win Prestigious Turing Award or ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive the Turing Award for revolutionizing AI innovation and shaping the future of technology.
Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
Turing Award: The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, was given to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the developers of a technique called reinforcement learning that is vital to chatbots.
AI pioneers who channeled 'hedonistic' machines win computer science's top prize
Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award.
AI pioneers who began work at UMass win computer science's top prize
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year's A.M. Turing Award, the tech world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The pair began crafting their theories and algorithms at the University of Massachusetts,
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Turing Award honors AI's reinforcement learning duo
This year's Turing Award — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science — is going to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, ...
Reinforcement learning pioneers harshly criticize the "unsafe" state of AI development
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto won this year's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize for computing, for their significant ...
AI scholars win Turing Prize for technique that made possible AlphaGo's chess triumph
Scholars Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton pioneered reinforcement learning long before it became a key tool in AI.
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Technique Behind ChatGPT’s AI Wins Computing’s Top Prize—But Its Creators Are Worried
Founders Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton received the 2024 Turing Award on Wednesday, before immediately flagging concerns ...
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Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5 ...
Artificial Intelligence Or Machine Learning: What's Right For Your Business?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the business landscape and changed how we work. Its capability to automate tasks ...
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Deepseek introduces new technologies to the AI world
ECE professor Kangwook Lee provides insights on new Chinese AI Deepseek, discussing how it was built and what it means for ...