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AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work


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

In more recent years, reinforcement learning has received more attention after Google Deepmind used the technique to build an AI that defeated the world’s best AlphaGo players. “Research areas ranging from cognitive science and psychology to neuroscience inspired the development of reinforcement learning, which has laid the foundations for some of the most important advances in AI and has given us greater insight into how the brain works,” ACM president Yannis Ioannidis said in a press release. Prior to joining TechCrunch in June 2022, Paul had gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for The Next Web (now owned by the Financial Times) and VentureBeat.

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