The Conversation

What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a ...
Forbes

Will Reinforcement Learning Take Us To AGI?

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 ...
Forbes

The Rise And Rise Of Reinforcement Learning: AI’s Quiet Revolution

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, Researcher and Speaker on Technology and Business Innovation. Apr 19, 2025, 03:24am EDT Apr 21, 2025, 10:40am EDT ...
Nature

Reinforcement learning improves behaviour from evaluative feedback

Reinforcement-learning algorithms 1,2 are inspired by our understanding of decision making in humans and other animals in which learning is supervised through the use of reward signals in response to ...
Geeky Gadgets

Watch AI learn to walk using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a subfield of machine learning that combines neural networks with reinforcement learning techniques to make decisions in complex environments. It has been applied ...
Physics World

The pros and cons of reinforcement learning in physical science

Machines that learn like babies: Reinforcement learning expert David Silver speaking at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum on 15 September, 2025. (Courtesy: Bernhard Kreutzer/HLF) Today’s artificial ...
MIT Technology Review

Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to a new kind of attack

Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought. The soccer bot lines up to take a shot at the ...