Recipients of the 2024 Turing Award: Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton
The recipients of the 2024 Turing Award are Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton. They were honored for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that enables computer systems to learn from experience using a system of rewards.
Barto is an emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while Sutton is a professor of computer science at the University of Alberta, a researcher at Keen Technologies, and a fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
Their work, which began in the 1980s, laid the groundwork for many modern AI applications, including systems such as AlphaGo and ChatGPT.
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