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TWIML · March 15, 2025 · 55m
Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art in 2025
The state of reinforcement learning: from game-playing to robotics to RLHF. How RL has evolved from a research curiosity to a core component of modern AI systems.
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Canon
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Reinforcement learning is explicitly environment-dependent — the reward environment shapes the agent
RL is the most explicit demonstration of environment-shapes-behavior in AI: the reward environment literally determines what behavior the agent learns.•
Charrington traces RL's biography from Atari game-playing through AlphaGo to RLHF, showing how each breakthrough expanded the set of environments where RL was effective.
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