Practical applications of reinforcement learning in industry

Check out the session "Get Your Hard Hat: Intelligent Industrial Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Conference in Beijing, April 10-13, 2018. Best price ends January 26. The flurry of headlines surrounding AlphaGo Zero (the most recent version of DeepMind's AI system for playing Go) means interest in reinforcement learning (RL) is bound to increase. Next to deep learning, RL is among the most followed topics in AI. For most companies, RL is something to investigate and evaluate but few organizations have identified use cases where RL may play a role. As we enter 2018, I want to briefly describe areas where RL has been applied.