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 @balajis: POLITICAL BILLIONAIRES. The clip below is a good encapsulation of what modern China is by Eric X. Li, who’s one of the most th….
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Alberta AI grows still stronger.
A big welcome to our seven new researchers! Their addition strengthens Amii’s research capacity to 57 Fellows and Canada CIFAR AI Chairs and supports our goal to advance AI and its applications to solve the world's toughest problems.
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I was happy to give a more technical talk on how we might create an AI at RLC-2025 and AGI-2025 (video below). The Oak Architecture: A Vision of Super-Intelligence from Experience.As AI has become a huge industry, to an extent it has lost its way. What is needed to get us back on.
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Bigyan is a recent graduate from CS at the University of Alberta. Now he has founded a company to rethink human-AI interaction.
Meet @thedriveAI, the world's first agentic workspace. Humans spend hours dealing with files: creating, sharing, writing, analyzing, and organizing them. The Drive AI can handle all of these operations in just a few seconds — even while you're off-screen getting your coffee, on
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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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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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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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