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Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ Keen, UAlberta, Amii, Openmindresearch.org, The Royal Society, Turing Award
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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    Richard Sutton
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    Jul 20, 2023
    AI researchers seek to understand intelligence well enough to create beings of greater intelligence than current humans. Reaching this profound intellectual milestone will enrich our economies and challenge our societal institutions. It will be unprecedented and
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    Richard Sutton
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    Jan 27, 2025
    Free Palestine.
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    Richard Sutton
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    Nov 18, 2022
    Stand with the people of Iran.
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    Richard Sutton
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    Sep 26, 2025
    Dwarkesh and I had a frank exchange of views. I hope we moved the conversation forward. Dwarkesh is a true gentleman.
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    Dwarkesh Patel
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    Sep 26, 2025
    .@RichardSSutton, father of reinforcement learning, doesn’t think LLMs are bitter-lesson-pilled. My steel man of Richard’s position: we need some new architecture to enable continual (on-the-job) learning. And if we have continual learning, we don't need a special training
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    Richard Sutton
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    Mar 5, 2025
    awards.acm.org/about/2024-tur… Machines that learn from experience were explored by Alan Turing almost eighty years ago, which makes it particularly gratifying and humbling to receive an award in his name for reviving this essential but still nascent idea.
    Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing...
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    Richard Sutton
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    Feb 25, 2025
    "What we want is a machine that can learn from experience." ---Alan Turing, 1947
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    Richard Sutton
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    Sep 1, 2025
    My acceptance speech at the Turing award ceremony: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. The main idea of reinforcement learning is that a machine might discover what to do on its own, without being told, from its own experience, by trial and error. As far as I know, the first
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    Richard Sutton
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    Jul 5, 2025
    It turns out the Turing Award is actually a silvery bowl from Tiffanys.
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    Richard Sutton
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    Dec 27, 2023
    I've studied intelligence all my long life, yet still I feel I learned important things about intelligence by reading this book. Thank you, Max Bennett.
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    Richard Sutton
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    Jun 19, 2025
    All the more so.
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    Jun 19, 2025
    Replying to @RichardSSutton
    Dear Prof.Sutton, I recently bought one of your classic reinforcement learning book. But I would like to ask you, in the current era when deep reinforcement learning and large language models are prevalent, is it still necessary to read this book carefully?
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    Richard Sutton
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    Oct 22, 2025
    Learning is the derivative of knowledge.
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    Richard Sutton
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    Mar 3, 2022
    If you take all the fields that study intelligent decision making—from neuroscience to AI, psychology to control theory, economics to operations research—do their theories have much in common? I think so, as I explain in this new short paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2202.13252…
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    Richard Sutton
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    Sep 3, 2025
    Dwarkesh Patel is 100% right on this: AI's utility is very strongly dependent on continual learning. youtu.be/nyvmYnz6EAg?si…
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    Richard Sutton
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    Nov 24, 2024
    The original RL algorithms, inspired by natural learning, were online and incremental—they were streaming in the sense that they learned from each increment of experience as it happened, then discarded it, never to be processed again. The streaming algorithms were simple and
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    Mohamed Elsayed
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    Nov 22, 2024
    Would you believe that deep RL can work without replay buffers, target networks, or batch updates? Our recent work gets deep RL agents to learn from a continuous stream of data one sample at a time without storing any sample. Joint work with @Gautham529 and @rupammahmood.
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