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AI Foundation Techniques
In this chapter, you'll begin your study of AI theory in earnest. You'll start with an introduction to a major branch of AI, called Reinforcement Learning, and the five principles that underpin every Reinforcement Learning model. Those principles will give you the theoretical understanding to make sense of every forthcoming AI model in this book.
What is Reinforcement Learning?
When people refer to AI today, some of them think of Machine Learning, while others think of Reinforcement Learning. I fall into the second category. I always saw Machine Learning as statistical models that have the ability to learn some correlations, from which they make predictions without being explicitly programmed.
While this is, in some ...
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