An AI strategy proven adept at board games like Chess and Go, reinforcement learning, has now been adapted for a powerful protein design program. The results show that reinforcement learning can do ...

Sutton believes Reinforcement Learning is the Path to to Intelligence via Experience. Sutton defines intelligence as the computational part of the ability to ...

In June 2021, scientists at the AI lab DeepMind made a controversial claim. The researchers suggested that we could reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) using one single approach: reinforcement ...

The robots are coming for your … chess game. Google’s AI, AlphaZero, developed a “superhuman performance” in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity’s entire history of chess ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Whether we’re learning to cook an omelet or drive a car, the path to mastering new skills often ...