The first act of the current AI boom was defined by prediction. LLMs were trained to predict the next word in a sentence, acting as sophisticated statistical mirrors of the internet. But for the ...

Nearly a century ago, psychologist B.F. Skinner pioneered a controversial school of thought, behaviorism, to explain human and animal behavior. Behaviorism directly inspired modern reinforcement ...

Progress in self-­driving cars and other forms of automation will slow dramatically unless machines can hone skills through experience. Inside a simple computer simulation, a group of self-driving ...