Richard Sutton

@RichardSSutton

Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ oaklab.ai, UAlberta, amii, openmindresearch.org, The Royal Society, Turing Award

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

richsutton.com

Joined October 2010

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Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Jul 20, 2023
AI researchers seek to understand intelligence well enough to create beings of greater intelligence than current humans. Reaching this profound intellectual milestone will enrich our economies and challenge our societal institutions. It will be unprecedented and
Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Aug 25
1964.
Erik Voorhees
@ErikVoorhees
Aug 24
"The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys. They'll be machines—the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think,
Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Aug 25
1863!
Erik Voorhees
@ErikVoorhees
Aug 24
Beautiful and haunting prescience. Give it a read in full and sit with it for some time. "we find ourselves almost awestruck at the vast development of the mechanical world, at the gigantic strides with which it has advanced in comparison with the slow progress of the animal
Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Aug 24
Nice article Paolo; we will make use of it in the kindergarten! And you should visit it sometime. Now we are just starting. First day of school is this September 1! @M33pinator
Paolo AI
@paolodiprodi
Aug 23
Replying to @RichardSSutton
Fantastic initiative my dream came true (see my article here paoloai.substack.com/p/stop-simulat…) Now I just have to move to China!
Richard Sutton
@RichardSSutton
Aug 22
Kris De Asis and I are helping build a kindergarten for robots, a safe place for them to learn from experience about their bodies and the world.
Tashan Technology
@Tashantec1
Aug 13
At #WAIC2026, Turing Award winner Prof. @RichardSSutton shared his thoughts on #RobotKindergarten, our joint project with Openmind — a place where robots can learn through trial and error. Robot Kindergarten opens in Beijing this September. 🚀 #TASHAN #EmbodiedAI #TactileSensing
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