Retired UMass Amherst professor Andrew Barto and his doctoral student Richard Sutton are the winners of this year's A.M. Turing Award. The post AI pioneers from UMass who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize appeared first on Boston.com.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, have been awarded the prestigious Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing. Their work, which began in the late 1970s, introduced the concept of machines adapting through positive signals, leading to significant advancements in AI, including Google's victory in Go, improvements in AI tools like ChatGPT, and robotics. The Turing Award, sponsored by Google, comes with a $1 million prize, recognizing their foundational contributions to AI development.
