Machines that learn by doing

Reinforcement learning and the path towards Artificial Intelligence

Samuel Flender
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 22, 2019

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Go Champion Lee Sedol (right) playing against AlphaGo in 2016 (source)

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…

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