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Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

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Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton have been awarded the Turing Award , the highest honor in the field of computer science.

They pioneered a technique known as reinforcement learning, which involves coaxing a computer to perform tasks through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback.

Reinforcement learning was perhaps most famously used by Google DeepMind in 2016 to build AlphaGo , a program that learned for itself how to play Go to an expert level.

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