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Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It's now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in computer science.
Barto and Sutton’s “work has been a lynchpin of progress in AI over the last several decades,” Jeff Dean, a senior vice president at Google, said in a statement released by the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) which hands out the Turing Award. Barto, Sutton, and others persevered, however, drawing inspiration from work in biology and psychology, including experiments conducted by Edward Thorndike in the early 1990s showing that animal behavior is shaped by stimuli. “Barto and Sutton’s work is not a stepping stone that we have now moved on from,” Yannis Ioannidis, president of the ACM, which hands out the Turing Prize each year, said in today’s statement.
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