The Sequence Scope: The Race to Improve Reinforcement Learning

The Sequence Scope is a summary of the most important published research papers, released technology and startup news in the AI ecosystem in the last week. This compendium is part of TheSequence newsletter. Data scientists, scholars, and developers from Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, Linux Foundation AI, Google, Lockheed Martin, Cardiff University, Mellon College of Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València and other companies and universities are already subscribed to TheSequence. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been at the center of some of the most important milestones of the last decade of deep learning. DeepMind's RL-based AlphaGo is considered by many the "Sputnik moment" in artificial intelligence (AI), responsible for sparking an innovation race between the top AI labs in the world.