Reinforcement learning and reasoning

Reinforcement learning has seen a lot of progress in recent years. From DeepMind success with teaching machines how to play Atari games, then AlphaGo beating world champions in Go to recent OpenAI's progress on Dota 2, a multiplayer game where players divided into two teams compete with each other. The common thread is an artificial agent operating in a virtual world, where the prize is clear (e.g. On the other hand people are experimenting with AI agents operating in real-world. Each clip of Boston Dynamics gets a lot of press, showing robots performing amazing stunts, as you can see yourself here or here.