Forbes

From Turing To DeepSeek, Reinforcement Learning Soars To AI Summit

Using a bunch of carrots to train a pony and rider. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the Turing Award for ...
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 ...
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 ...
NextBigFuture

Looking at Current AI Learning Frameworks to Create Learning Pipelines to Achieve Superintelligence

Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk ...
ZDNet

True agentic AI is years away - here's why and how we get there

Today's AI agents don't meet the definition of true agents. Key missing elements are reinforcement learning and complex memory. It will take at least five years to get AI agents where they need to be.
Geeky Gadgets

Why Reinforcement Learning Could Be AI’s Biggest Flaw Yet

What if the very techniques we rely on to make AI smarter are actually holding it back? A new study has sent shockwaves through the AI community by challenging the long-held belief that reinforcement ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...
TechCrunch

AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward ...
Hosted on MSN

Watch an AI learn to balance a stick — reinforcement learning in action

Watch an AI agent learn how to balance a stick—completely from scratch—using reinforcement learning! This project walks you through how an algorithm interacts with an environment, learns through trial ...
Ars Technica

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...
TechSpot

Reinforcement learning pioneers harshly criticize the "unsafe" state of AI development

Who are they? Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto are pioneers of reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique modern AI models utilize. Sutton is often referred to as the "father of reinforcement ...