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 ...

Google's AlphaGo is slowly but surely becoming the best Go player in the world, with one key difference: Unlike other top players, it's not human. It's an artificial intelligence. Kicking off The ...

But both Barto and Sutton warned against the current pace of AI development, where firms are racing to launch models that are powerful but prone to making errors, raising unprecedented amounts of ...

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of AI corporation DeepMind (left), is receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry medal and certificate at the Nobel Prize ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on ...

Many breakthroughs in AI, including large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, were only possible because of ...

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

Lee, who enjoyed fame as one of the world’s best Go players, retired from competitive play in 2019 after a notable series of matches against Google’s AlphaGo AI in 2016. Although he lost the ...