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Re:Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award by textlapse on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:20PM (#43271784)
It just feels like a smear on his character: Imagine working on RL incrementally without any lofty goals or preconceived evil.

I do agree that there is some level of inherent safety issues with such technologies - but look at atomic bomb vs fission reactors etc: history paves a way through positivity.

Just because someone had an idea that eventually turned to have some evil branch off way further from the root idea doesn't mean they started with the evil idea in the first place or worse, someone else won't.

Re:Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award by hollerith on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:28AM (#43280591)
People left careers in AI in the 1990s because they came to realize that the tech would probably eventually become dangerous. Many more (including the star student in my CS program in the 1980s) never started a career in AI for the same reason.

Sutton and everyone else who has advanced the field deserve condemnation IMO, not awards.