Computer Science · Boston College
Today, computer programs like AlphaZero can teach themselves from scratch in less than a day to play games like chess, go, and shogi better than human experts.How? Reinforcement learning (RL), the branch of machine learning concerned with how a machine can teach itself, through trial and error, to optimize the reward it obtains over time from an uncertain and dynamic environment.RL applies to many problems besides board games, including flying drones, steering cars, landing rockets, puppeteering robots, improving chatbots, folding proteins, containing plasma, trading stocks, and even proving t
