Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...
Interesting Engineering

US researchers build fall-safe biped robots to advance real-world reinforcement learning

HybridLeg robots Olaf and Snogie use impact-safe design and self-recovery to enable scalable, real-world hardware ...

How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents

Google researchers introduce ‘Internal RL,’ a technique that steers an models' hidden activations to solve long-horizon tasks ...
Physics World

Reinforcement learning could help airborne wind energy take off

Machine learning technique teaches power-generating kites to extract energy from turbulent airflows more effectively, ...
Forbes

The Rise And Rise Of Reinforcement Learning: AI’s Quiet Revolution

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, Researcher and Speaker on Technology and Business Innovation. Apr 19, 2025, 03:24am EDT Apr 21, 2025, 10:40am EDT ...
Analytics India Magazine

Complex Reinforcement Learning Tasks Can Cost Up to $20,000 Each: EpochAI Report

Among those interviewed, one RL environment founder said, “I’ve seen $200 to $2,000 mostly. $20k per task would be rare but ...
Electronics360

Wind turbine control systems: From PID to reinforcement learning

In an RL-based control system, the turbine (or wind farm) controller is realized as an agent that observes the state of the ...
Forbes

From Turing To DeepSeek, Reinforcement Learning Soars To AI Summit

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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Reinforcement Learning Could Be AI’s Biggest Flaw Yet

What if the very techniques we rely on to make AI smarter are actually holding it back? A new study has sent shockwaves through the AI community by challenging the long-held belief that reinforcement ...