AI, Nobel Prize and Turing Award

AI Pioneers Win Prestigious Turing Award or ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive the Turing Award for revolutionizing AI innovation and shaping the future of technology.
Retired UMass professor awarded ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for AI technology
The Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of computing" was given to a University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientist and his former graduate student.
AI pioneers from UMass who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize
Retired UMass Amherst professor Andrew Barto and his doctoral student Richard Sutton are the winners of this year's A.M. Turing Award.
Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers
Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption.
Technique Behind ChatGPT’s AI Wins Computing’s Top Prize—But Its Creators Are Worried
Founders Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton received the 2024 Turing Award on Wednesday, before immediately flagging concerns about AI safety.
AI scholars win Turing Prize for technique that made possible AlphaGo's chess triumph
Scholars Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton pioneered reinforcement learning long before it became a key tool in AI.
AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists 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.
AI pioneers win computer science’s top prize
Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence (AI) and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award.
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The Real Reason AI Can’t Solve Nobel-Worthy Problems: It’s Not Creative Enough!
Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf argues AI lacks creativity, unable to solve complex problems like Einstein or Newton.
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Nobel-winning AI developer says risks must also be assessed
He said the Nobel Prizes were a way for the Nobel Committee to say, “AI now can be recognized as a proper science.” The Nobel Prize in Physics also went to two scientists for their work in ...
Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’
Hugging Face co-founder and chief science officer Thomas Wolf thinks that AI today isn't capable of figuring out novel ...
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick
The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on ...
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AI pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing Award, warn against risks of rushed development
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the Turing Award for their breakthrough work on reinforcement learning with AI.
Reinforcement learning pioneers harshly criticize the "unsafe" state of AI development
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto won this year's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize for computing, for their significant ...
Startup aiming to build AI models for chemistry adds two AI ‘godfathers’ to advisory panel as it grabs top research talent from Google
Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight ...