The Conversation

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

Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living ...
Forbes

The Rise And Rise Of Reinforcement Learning: AI’s Quiet Revolution

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, Researcher and Speaker on Technology and Business Innovation. Apr 19, 2025, 03:24am EDT Apr 21, 2025, 10:40am EDT ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Reinforcement Learning Could Be AI’s Biggest Flaw Yet

What if the very techniques we rely on to make AI smarter are actually holding it back? A new study has sent shockwaves through the AI community by challenging the long-held belief that reinforcement ...
NextBigFuture

Looking at Current AI Learning Frameworks to Create Learning Pipelines to Achieve Superintelligence

Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk ...
Forbes

The Autonomous Advantage: Reinforcement Learning’s Role In The Next Era Of AI

The age of truly autonomous artificial intelligence, where systems proactively learn, adapt and optimize amid real-world complexities instead of simply reacting, has been a long-held aspiration. Now, ...
Nature

AI can learn to show its workings through trial and error

Large language models (LLMs) are more accurate when they output intermediate steps. A strategy called reinforcement can teach them to do this without being told. The researchers introduced a paradigm ...
Wired

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a ...
Nature

AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...
EurekAlert!

A new AI-based attack framework advances multi-agent reinforcement learning by amplifying vulnerability and bypassing defenses

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence approach that exposes critical weaknesses in multi-agent reinforcement learning systems, enabling stronger coordinated attacks with broad ...
Wired

This AI Model Never Stops Learning

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of ...
CNBC

Nvidia's Jensen Huang bets on this British startup to build 'next frontier' of AI

Nvidia will partner with British startup Ineffable Intelligence to develop new AI systems, the companies announced in Wednesday. Unlike many leading AI models that are trained on human data, Ineffable ...