The Conversation

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

Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living ...
eLife

Correctness is its own reward: bootstrapping error signals in self-guided reinforcement learning

The approach is solid, but the choice of learning rules, circuit architecture, and sparsity assumptions is not always sufficiently justified, and the model would benefit from a clearer mechanistic ...
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 ...
techtimes

Cognition SWE-1.7: RL on Top of RL Yields Near-Frontier Code at Low Cost

Cognition launched SWE-1.7 on Wednesday, the most capable model it has trained, and with it made a specific claim about reinforcement learning that the broader AI research community will be evaluating ...