AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work

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March 5, 2025, 3:27 PM

• •Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning.
• •Reinforcement learning is a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments.
• •Barto and Sutton developed key algorithms and theories through a seminal series of papers starting in the 1980s.

Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments.

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