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The capability of a machine to "learn" on its own is the subject of some debate. With traditional supervised machine learning, decisions can be optimized, but the machine isn't really learning by itself. Now a startup called Cogitai is hoping to push the limits of a machine's capability to learn continuously using reinforcement learning techniques. Cogitai was founded in 2015 by some of the earliest innovators in the reinforcement learning (RL) field, including Mark Ring, Peter Stone, and Pete Wurman. The Orange County, California is hoping to leverage the collective RL knowledge work of its founders and the 15 or so PhD computer scientists in the firm to change the course of AI applications.