Using a bunch of carrots to train a pony and rider. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the Turing Award for ...

Imagine trying to teach a child how to solve a tricky math problem. You might start by showing them examples, guiding them step by step, and encouraging them to think critically about their approach.

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I will identify and discuss an important AI ...

Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...

Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning concerned with how an intelligent agent can learn through trial and error to make optimal decisions in its ...

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...