AI pioneers from UMass who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize
Retired UMass Amherst professor Andrew Barto and his doctoral student Richard Sutton are the winners of this year's A.M. Turing Award.
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.
Retired UMass professor awarded ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for AI technology
The Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of computing" was given to a University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientist and his former graduate student.
Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers
Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption.
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.
A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Win the Turing Award
This year’s Turing Award goes to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, two researchers who have warned against A.I.’s rapid development.
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.
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, the pioneers of a key approach that underlies much of today's artificial intelligence.
AI pioneers 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 (AI) and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award.
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 ...
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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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ACM A.M. Turing Award honors two researchers who led the development of cornerstone AI technology
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ...
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Decoding AI: From the Wilderness to Turing Triumph
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, pioneers of reinforcement learning, won the A M Turing Award, shaping AI with methods akin to animal training. Their research paved the way for AI achievements, ...