In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...

If you walk down the street shouting out the names of every object you see — garbage truck! bicyclist! sycamore tree! — most people would not conclude you are smart. But if you go through an obstacle ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a transformative approach to managing urban intersections through adaptive, data-driven decision-making. By modelling each traffic signal controller as an ...

Who are they? Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto are pioneers of reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique modern AI models utilize. Sutton is often referred to as the "father of reinforcement ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...