Reinforcement Learning: The Next Big Thing For AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
Reinforcement Learning: The Next Big Thing For AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
Reinforcement Learning: The Next Big Thing For AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
By Tom Taulli
June 05, 2020
Summary
There are other areas of AI that look promising, such as reinforcement learning.
Some of the key principles of reinforcement learning have been applied to AI models.
"The agent, such as a robot or character, interacts with its surrounding environment and observes a specific activity, responding accordingly to produce a beneficial or desired result. Reinforcement learning adheres to a specific methodology and determines the best means to obtain the best result. It's very similar to the structure of how we play a video game, in which the agent engages in a series of trials to obtain the highest score or reward. Over several iterations, it learns to maximize its cumulative reward."
Some of the most interesting use cases for reinforcement learning have been with complex games.
The system used reinforcement learning to quickly understand how to play Go and was able to beat the world champion, Lee Sedol, in 2016.
Reinforcement learning has even been shown to be effective when finding better solutions for tax policies and equality, as seen with Saleforce.com's AI Economist.
"We believe a reinforcement learning framework is well-suited for uncovering insights on how the behavior of economic agents could be influenced by pulling different policy 'levers,'" said Richard Socher, who is the Chief Scientist at Salesforce.
Healthcare: "Imagine trying to use reinforcement learning to teach an AI doctor how to treat a medical patient," said Noah Giansiracusa, who is an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Bentley University.
Now reinforcement learning is still in the nascent phases.
"I believe reinforcement learning is on the cusp of rippling through and disrupting a lot of industries," said Giansiracusa.
Reference
Taulli, T. (2020, June 05). Reinforcement Learning: The Next Big Thing For AI (Artificial Intelligence)? Retrieved June 06, 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/06/05/reinforcement-learning-the-next-big-thing-for-ai-artificial-intelligence/