The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on ...

Scholars Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton pioneered reinforcement learning long before it became a key tool in AI.

World go champion Lee Se-dol lost the final game in a five-match series to the artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaGo program, ...

Korea’s tendency to mimic foreign technologies is a major obstacle facing the burgeoning local artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Turing Award: The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, was given to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the ...

Basically, AlphaGo's neural net continually rewired itself based on rewards or punishments from win/loss outcomes of self-play during its training. AlphaGo was able to come up with never-before ...

In 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 ... to win the Turing Award ...

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