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Richard Sutton

A founder of reinforcement learning who thinks current AI methods are a dead end.

Richard Sutton is one of the architects of reinforcement learning, the approach in which a system learns by trying things and being rewarded for what works. It is the technique behind game-playing breakthroughs and much of how modern models are refined after training.

He won the Turing Award for that work and has since argued that learning from a fixed pile of text is inefficient compared with learning continuously from experience. His startup Oak Lab is the attempt to prove it.