From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...

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 ...

Progress in self-­driving cars and other forms of automation will slow dramatically unless machines can hone skills through experience. Inside a simple computer simulation, a group of self-driving ...