Monthly Archives: March 2025
The power of raw computation and the “bitter lesson” for AI research
Last week Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto were awarded the Turing Award for their pioneering contributions to the field of Reinforcement Learning. I covered their award in a previous post. Here I want to discuss an essay that Rich Sutton … Continue reading
The Turing Award for Reinforcement Learning Pioneers
This week Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were awarded the ACM Turing Award, the highest award in the field of Computer Science, for their pioneering contributions to the field of Reinforcment Learning. With the advances in Artificial Intelligence over the … Continue reading
AI Agents in full force
2025 is becoming the year of Agentic AI. There were three big announcements in this field over the last couple of days. On March 5th, Microsoft rolled out its Agentic AI tools for sales agents. Microsoft has been all in … Continue reading
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