Rich Sutton

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.

Co-authored the foundational reinforcement learning textbook that defines the field, and wrote 'The Bitter Lesson' — arguing that the history of AI shows that general search and learning methods scaled with compute always outperform human-knowledge-encoded methods, predicting the scaling era.