Will Reinforcement Learning Lead to AGI?
Everything old is new again.
The story of reinforcement learning (RL) is a fascinating tale of how we've taught machines to learn through trial and error, much like we humans do. It's a journey that spans decades, weaving together ideas from psychology, mathematics, and computer science.
It was en vogue decades ago.. and now RL is creating a buzz as a legitimate path to Artificial General Intelligence.
What is Reinforcement Learning?
Imagine training a dog. You don't tell it exactly how to sit, but you reward it when it does. That's the basic idea behind RL. It's a type of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment. The agent gets rewards for good actions and penalties for bad ones, gradually figuring out the best way to behave.
Essentially there are four phases to traditional RL:
Exploration: The agent tries out different actions to see what happens.
Evaluation: The agent gets a reward or penalty based on its action.
Learning: The agent update…
