Exploring PlaNet – Jesus Rodriguez – Medium

Planning has been long considered one of the cognitive abilities of the human mind that is nearly impossible to replicate by artificial intelligence(AI). Some neuroscientists even relate to future planning as one of the key characteristics of human consciousness. Planning does not only requires understanding a specific objective but also projecting that objective onto an environment whose characteristics are unknown in the present. Humans are able to plan not only because we are able to understand a specific task in detail but because our ability to understand our surrounding environment enough that we can project the outcome of that task in the future. In the context of AI, reinforcement learning is the discipline that has been trying to build long-term planning capabilities in AI agents.