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Richard S. Sutton is a Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, a Research Scientist at Keen Technologies, and the Principal Investigator at the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He also serves as the Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and as Chief Scientific Advisor there. Additionally, he founded the Openmind Research Institute and is Chief Scientific Officer at ExperienceFlow.
His research focuses on identifying general computational principles underlying intelligence and goal-directed behavior. He emphasizes the interaction between intelligent agents and their environment, exploring how goals, choices, and information sources emerge from this interaction. His work spans reinforcement learning (RL), agent-environment dynamics, and ethical considerations in AI, such as robot rights and moral philosophy. His articles include technical works on RL, ethical frameworks, and philosophical essays like The Bitter Lesson (2019) and The Definition of Intelligence (2016).
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- Co-author of foundational RL textbook
- Developed Tile Coding Software for RL
