Congratulations to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton on the well-deserved Turing Award! Their groundbreaking work in reinforcement learning has had an enormous impact across AI, neuroscience, robotics, and beyond. The ripple effects are still unfolding!
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Rodney Brooks
The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
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