Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive the Turing Award for revolutionizing AI innovation ...

Barto, 76, and Sutton, 67, began their research in the late 1970s, laying the foundation for many of the significant AI ...

There are several technologists who are losing sleep over AI systems becoming increasingly powerful, but some want humanity ...

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto won this year's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize for computing, for their significant ...

The award, named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is considered to be the “Nobel Prize for computing science” and ...

This undated photo provided by Dawn Graves shows Richard Sutton, —Dawn Graves via AP Teaching machines in the way that animal ...

Too fast, too untested, too profit-oriented: Turing Award winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton criticize AI developments.

“Now it’s obvious that reinforcement learning is a thing to do, but it did not used to exist as a machine-learning endeavour.” Sutton spoke about the award’s namesake, Turing, who once ...