Teaching KNIME to Play Tic-Tac-Toe

In this blog post I want to introduce some basic concepts of reinforcement learning, some important terminology, and show a simple use case where I create a game playing AI in KNIME Analytics Platform. After reading this, I hope you'll have a better understanding of the usefulness of reinforcement learning, as well as some key vocabulary to facilitate learning more. You may have heard of Reinforcement Learning (RL) being used to train robots to walk or gently pick up objects; or perhaps you may have heard of it's uses in the discovery of new chemical compounds for medical use. It's even being applied to regular vehicle and network traffics! Reinforcement learning is an area of Machine Learning and has become a broad field of study with many different algorithmic frameworks.