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How the Brain Uses Reinforcement Learning Beyond Just Mean Rewards

What if our brains learned from rewards not just by averaging them but by considering their full range of possibilities? A ...
The Next Web

Reinforcement learning: How rewards create intelligent machines

In June 2021, scientists at the AI lab DeepMind made a controversial claim. The researchers suggested that we could reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) using one single approach: reinforcement ...
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The Brain Predicts Reward Like an AI, Says New DeepMind Research

The idea of reinforcement learning—or learning based on reward—has been around for so long it’s easy to forget we don’t really know how it works. If DeepMind’s new bombshell paper in Nature is any ...
VentureBeat

Google Brain and DeepMind researchers attack reinforcement learning efficiency

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Reinforcement learning, which spurs AI to complete goals using rewards or ...
MIT Technology Review

An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too

In 1951, Marvin Minsky, then a student at Harvard, borrowed observations from animal behavior to try to design an intelligent machine. Drawing on ideas from the work of physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who ...
Wired

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...