
Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
By Cade Metz
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
By Cade Metz
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By Cade Metz
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