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What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog

By Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan

Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the idea into practice in the 1980s and set the stage for the likes of ChatGPT.

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