This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is "Reinforcement Learning"? Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a type of machine learning where a model learns to make decisions by ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning concerned with how an intelligent agent can learn through trial and error to make optimal decisions in its ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...