July 2017 – RealThinks

Today we're going to be learning about reinforcement learning. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to create an artificial intelligence that is a strong Othello player, and can teach you how to become stronger yourself. I explained the rules of Othello, my motivation, and how to create a playable game in Step 1 of this series. I created some basic artificial intelligence in Step 2 of this series. The next thing I want to do is to use machine learning to create an even better artificial intelligence, but before I can even do that, I need to learn how to implement reinforcement learning. In many machine learning aspects, the cause/effect relationship is fairly obvious: A house with X square feet, Y bedrooms, and Z bathrooms in neighborhood Q will cost, on average N dollars.