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Richard Sutton

U of Alberta Canada

Score
6,6180 today
Rank
101/198 =
over 90 days
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Richard Sutton is an AI researcher and reinforcement learning figure associated with UAlberta, AMII, OakLab, OpenMind Research, The Royal Society, and the Turing Award. His posts discuss reinforcement learning, learning from experience, AI startup work, robot learning environments, research talks, videos, and public appearances. He identifies as a libertarian, chess player, and cancer survivor.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026.

The raw numbers · last 90 days

Median views
32.7K
per post
Median engagements
269
per post
Posts
14
over 90 days
Followers
72.7K
all scored platforms

What drives the score

Percentiles 0–100 against all tracked creators.

  • Reach · 30%83

    Average views per post over 90 days

  • Engagement · 30%62

    Average reactions per post

  • Audience · 30%64

    Total followers, relative to population

  • Consistency · 10%75

    Posting frequency (25 posts / 90 days = 100)

Platforms

72.7K total followers

PlatformFollowersScore
X@richardssutton72.7K7,990t2

Last 30 days

Sutton's top posts

  1. X · 25 days ago#1
    I do not seek to dominate, or be dominated by, machine intelligences. I seek harmonious coexistence.
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    91.5K views2.3K engagements

  2. X · 24 days ago#2
    The PhD thesis of my 15th PhD student, Shibhansh Dohare (@ShibhanshD), is now available. Title: Learning Forever using Artificial Neural Networks Url: https://t.co/VNZKash0jH Abstract: In this dissertation, I study th…
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    69.1K views1.6K engagements

  3. X · 24 days ago#3
    The PhD thesis of my 16th PhD student, Fernando Hernandez Garcia, is now available. Title: Selective Reinitialization Algorithms for Preventing Plasticity Loss in Artificial Neural Networks Url: https://t.co/RrtZm0vWY…
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    163.6K views815 engagements

  4. X · 24 days ago#4
    And here is the new PhD thesis of Gautham Vasan (@Gautham529), whose committee I was recently on. I thought this thesis was particularly well done, including the AVG algorithm in Chapter 6, which is a new streaming RL…
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    34.1K views577 engagements

  5. X · 15 days ago#5
    Agree on all three points
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    31.2K views294 engagements

  6. X · 25 days ago#6
    In here is a video of The Bitter Lesson as a pretty-good country-music song. Enjoy. https://t.co/kMLW892Gw1
    RSRichard Sutton, RL pioneer, Turing AwardRichard Sutton

    17.1K views241 engagements

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