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Turing Award Winners Sound Alarm on Hasty AI Deployment
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI systems [alternative source] after winning computing's prestigious $1 million Turing Award Wednesday. "Releasing software to millions of people without safeguards is not good engineering ...
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI systems[ alternative source] after winning computing's prestigious $1 million Turing Award Wednesday. "Releasing software to millions of people without safeguards is not good engineering practice," said Barto, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, comparing it to testing a bridge by having people use it.Barto and Sutton developed reinforcement learning in the 1980s, inspired by psychological studies of human learning. Sutton, a University of Alberta professor and former DeepMind researcher, dismissed tech companies' artificial general intelligence narrative as "hype."
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