Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tuesday and hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton sees a central weakness in conventional generative AI: it can't evaluate its own results. Without that ability, real scientific discovery remains impossible: no [...]
Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and in [...]
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for developing key technologies that power modern artificial intelligence, including recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. [...]
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any simulation of it is "microscopic,&quo [...]
Nvidia powers almost every self-driving car project going. A small Japanese startup is quietly handing some of that work to AMD instead. Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its backers and started r [...]
Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A [...]
Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and c [...]