Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
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Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ Keen, UAlberta, Amii, https://t.co/u8za2Kod54, The Royal Society, Turing Award
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Joined October 2010
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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RT @pmddomingos: There are two kinds of academics: those who complicate the simple and those who simplify the complex.
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RT @MarlosCMachado: RLC starts tomorrow here in Edmonton. I couldn't be more excited! It has a fantastic roll of speakers, great papers, an….
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Wow, this reads like a new dose of reality, with the corruption and narrative control running even deeper than I had cynically imagined.
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RT @MarcoFoster_: Jon Stewart on Gaza: “I feel like I’m watching something that is so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told t….
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My colleague Rupam Mahmood explains from first principles his groundbreaking work on Streaming Deep Reinforcement Learning:
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RT @DrTechlash: 🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MT….
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RT @KhurramJaved_96: The issue in the first paragraph is real when learning without bootstrapping (e.g., with reinforce). TD learning metho….
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RT @AmiiThinks: The @UAlberta is ranked #1 in Canada for #AI. Amii is proud to be a key collaborator in building Alberta’s robust AI ecosys….
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Go John!.
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True.
@RichardSSutton Intelligence is the ability to learn, adapt, reason, and solve problems. It’s process-oriented. Intelligence is not what you know — it’s what you can figure out. It’s the capacity to handle the unknown or novel situations. Intelligence = potential.
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It turns out the Turing Award is actually a silvery bowl from Tiffanys.
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In my recent talk at the Upperbound conference, I included a slide in which I tried to be a realist about the arrival of AI, setting aside what we might want to happen or what we might fear will happen, and just ask what _will_ happen (as in John Mearsheimer's "realist" school of
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RT @academic_la: The amount of death threats I’m receiving for speaking up on Gaza required me to file a police complaint. Here you can see….
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RT @academic_la: For an Israeli, the idea that our country could be committing genocide is almost impossible to accept. This isn’t about go….
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RT @UAlberta: The U of A has been ranked the top university in Canada and 53rd in the world for artificial intelligence by U.S. News. Bac….
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Ah, if only I did have muscles like that. .
Superheros gathered today at Creative Destruction Lab's "Super Session" for a deep-neural discussion on the future of AI ;> @creativedlab @rotmanschool @uoft @canada #ai #cdl
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All the more so.
@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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In war, both sides lose. That we don’t learn this is the greatest tragedy.
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