Reinforcement learning has traditionally occupied a niche status in the world of artificial intelligence. But reinforcement learning has started to assume a larger role in many AI initiatives in ...

What is Reinforcement Learning? At the core of reinforcement learning is the concept that the optimal behavior or action is reinforced by a positive reward.

The chapter is centered on inverse reinforcement learning, a type of inference. In “normal” inference, we look at actions and try to infer a goal. Inverse reinforcement learning turns it around.

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.