AgiBot said its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system lets robots learn new skills in minutes on a pilot production line.

For a long time, the core idea in reinforcement learning (RL) was that AI agents should learn every new task from scratch, like a blank slate. This "tabula rasa" approach led to amazing achievements, ...

AI tasks that work well with reinforcement learning are getting better fast — and threatening to leave the rest of the industry behind.

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

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