Richard Sutton Breaks Away from Keen AI to Start Oak Lab

Richard Sutton and Khurram Javed have left Keen Technologies to found Oak Lab, a new startup focused on advancing reinforcement learning and developing fundamentally new ideas for AI, diverging from current deep learning methods.

I can’t say enough good things about John Carmack @ID AA Carmack and his Keen Technologies. But now Khurram Javed @kjaved and I have broken away to start our own startup and pursue a slightly different path toward understanding intelligence. Like Keen and like Ineffable we at Oak Lab @oaklab ai believe in reinforcement learning and that intelligence is created and maintained from run-time experience. But we think current deep learning methods are weak and inefficient, and need not more tweaks, but fundamentally new ideas and a thorough reworking before they can provide a solid foundation for achieving the more ambitious goals of AI.