2024 Turing Award to Reinforcement Learning
ACM A.M. Turing Award Honors Two Researchers Who Led the Development of Cornerstone AI Technology
https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/march/turing-award-2024
https://amturing.acm.org
“ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.”
Here are a few out of many excellent works and talks from the Turing awardees. (No need to mention the RL book.)
David Silver and Richard Sutton (2025), Welcome to the Era of Experience
A discussion with Rich Sutton moderated by Ajay Agrawal with others,
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A Perspective on Intelligence,
The Quest for a Common Model of the Intelligent Decision Maker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13252
The increasing role of sensorimotor experience in AI
Rich Sutton Brings Reinforcements
https://computingup.com/rich-sutton-brings-reinforcements-72nd-conversation
Andy Barto - In the Beginning ML was RL - RLC 2024
Also, David Silver - Towards Superhuman Intelligence - RLC 2024
I was fortunate to study at the University of Alberta, learn from Rich Sutton and other professors and students (including David Silver) in the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence (RLAI) group.
Study Material for Reinforcement Learning (November 2023)
https://yuxili.substack.com/p/study-material-for-q-learning-and
Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview (2200+ citations)
Reinforcement Learning in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11296
Reinforcement Learning Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06973
Iterative improvements from feedback for language models, 2023. (Talk to me for update)
Reinforcement learning is all you need, for next generation language models. (May 2023)
https://yuxili.substack.com/p/reinforcement-learning-is-all-you
RL for Real Life workshops