Andrew Barto Named Co-recipient of 'Nobel Prize of Computing' for Foundational Work on AI Technology

“It carries a $1 million prize, for which Google Inc. provides the financial support, and is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the foundations of computing more than 70 years ago.”

Barto and Sutton won the Turing Award for reinforcement learning, which they have worked on since the 1980s. Their textbook has over 75,000 citations. Google pays the $1 million prize and earns far more from reinforcement learning through DeepMind. The reasoning models everyone is selling run on their work.