Turing Award: The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, was given to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the developers of a technique called reinforcement learning that is vital to chatbots.

Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive the Turing Award for revolutionizing AI innovation and shaping the future of technology.

Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It’s now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in computer science.

Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption.

Retired UMass Amherst professor Andrew Barto and his doctoral student Richard Sutton are the winners of this year's A.M. Turing Award.

The Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of computing" was given to a University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientist and his former graduate student.