Hands-On Genetic Algorithms with Python

Reinforcement learning

In the previous chapters, we covered several topics related to machine learning and focused on supervised learning tasks. While supervised learning is immensely important and has a lot of real-life applications, reinforcement learning currently seems to be the most exciting and promising branch of machine learning. The reasons for this excitement include the complex, everyday-life-like tasks that reinforcement learning has the potential to handle. In March 2016, AlphaGo, a reinforcement learning-based system specializing in the highly complex game of Go, was able to defeat the person considered to be the greatest Go player of the past decade in a competition that was widely covered by the media.

While supervised learning ...