Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...

How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents

Google researchers introduce ‘Internal RL,’ a technique that steers an models' hidden activations to solve long-horizon tasks ...
Forbes

The New OpenAI o1 Generative AI Model Makes An Important Right Turn When It Comes To Reinforcement Learning

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I will identify and discuss an important AI ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US researchers build fall-safe biped robots to advance real-world reinforcement learning

HybridLeg robots Olaf and Snogie use impact-safe design and self-recovery to enable scalable, real-world hardware ...
seattlepi.com

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

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...
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A new AI-based attack framework advances multi-agent reinforcement learning by amplifying vulnerability and bypassing defenses

Researchers have developed a novel framework, termed PDJA (Perception–Decision Joint Attack), that leverages artificial ...
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Turing Award honors AI's reinforcement learning duo

This year's Turing Award — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science — is going to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the pioneers of a key approach that underlies much of today's artificial ...
NextBigFuture

Reinforcement Learning Does NOT Fundamentally Improve AI Models

Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning ...
Deep Learning with Yacine on MSN

Watch an AI learn to balance a stick — reinforcement learning in action

Watch an AI agent learn how to balance a stick—completely from scratch—using reinforcement learning! This project walks you ...
TechSpot

Reinforcement learning pioneers harshly criticize the "unsafe" state of AI development

Who are they? Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto are pioneers of reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique modern AI models utilize. Sutton is often referred to as the "father of reinforcement ...
Devdiscourse

AI trading systems mimicking human bias show higher risk

Reinforcement learning frames trading as a sequential decision-making problem, where an agent observes market conditions, ...