2025-03-05
Congratulations! Their insight - that the same principles that worked (at the time) for small control problems like cart pole are fundamental for large scale reasoning / decision making - is simply genius! What a well deserved award
New York Times
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.