In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, began exploring a new theory that neurons ...

The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on ...

Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence ...

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in ...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the Turing Award for their breakthrough work on reinforcement learning with AI.

Current AI implementations are just the first of three potential levels of artificial intelligence. What would we need to get ...

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning, a scientific technique that has been fundamental to the artificial intelligence boom, have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI models after winning this ...

This year’s Turing Award goes to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, two researchers who have warned against A.I.’s rapid development.

Sports such as football and hockey have only been made more entertaining by the increased use of analytics. But some say that ...

Dr. Richard Sutton, together with his co-winner, Andrew Barto, is best know for helping to lay the foundations for ...

Barto is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sutton is a ...

For Anthropic, having their AI play Pokémon is more than just a game—it shows how their system is improving. On Monday, ...