Researcher flags how irrelevant UAlberta has become in modern AI despite RL dominance
finbarrtimbers · x · 2026-10-18
AI researcher Finbarr Timbers says he finds it shocking how irrelevant the University of Alberta — a historic RL stronghold — has become in modern AI, even as reinforcement learning remains the dominant paradigm.
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