AlphaGo, Reinforcement Learning, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Last year, Google Deepmind took a giant step forward in proving the value of deep learning when the latest version of their Go-playing computer program, AlphaGo Zero, beat the previous model after only three days of self-training. This is an impressive feat by itself. The implications for business and enterprise analytics, however, are more exciting. Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning where the machine is allowed to automatically determine the "ideal behavior" within a specific situation in order to obtain the optimal outcome. There are two parts to this.