Machines that learn by doing
Reinforcement learning and the path towards Artificial Intelligence
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8 min readJun 22, 2019
In my mid-twenties I learned to play tennis for the first time. The thing about tennis is that, once you start off, it is really hard to make the ball land in the opposite side of the court (and not in the trees behind the court). The trick is to hold the racket roughly vertically the moment you hit the…