2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Alberta, co-author of the seminal Reinforcement Learning textbook with Andrew Barto, and author of 'The Bitter Lesson' essay.
Rich Sutton's 2019 essay arguing that the history of AI research consistently shows that general methods leveraging massive computation outperform methods that incorporate human domain knowledge — the 'bitter lesson' being that AI researchers keep re-learning this.