Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Receive 2024 Turing Award for Reinforcement Learning
- Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton received the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
- The award, known as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” includes a $1 million prize funded by Google.
- Barto and Sutton developed reinforcement learning in the late 1970s and 1980s.
- Their seminal textbook, “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction,” has been cited nearly 80,000 times.
- They criticized current AI development practices for lacking safety measures.
Barto and Sutton were awarded the prestigious Turing Award for their pioneering work in reinforcement learning, which continues to influence AI advancements. They have voiced concerns about unsafe AI deployment practices in the industry.
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