Reinforcement learning uses rewards and penalties to teach computers how to play games and robots how to perform tasks independently You have probably heard about Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, ...

Whether you like theoretical study or want to get your hands dirty, plenty of reinforcement learning resources are out there. When I was in graduate school in the 1990s, one of my favorite classes was ...

Machine learning (ML) might be considered the core subset of artificial intelligence (AI), and reinforcement learning may be the quintessential subset of ML that people imagine when they think of AI.

Someone looking to book a vacation online today might have very different preferences than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of flying to an exotic beach, they might feel more comfortable ...

Nearly a century ago, psychologist B.F. Skinner pioneered a controversial school of thought, behaviorism, to explain human and animal behavior. Behaviorism directly inspired modern reinforcement ...

At the core of reinforcement learning is the concept that the optimal behavior or action is reinforced by a positive reward. Similar to toddlers learning how to walk who adjust actions based on the ...

Progress in self-­driving cars and other forms of automation will slow dramatically unless machines can hone skills through experience. Inside a simple computer simulation, a group of self-driving ...