Reinforcement Learning Study Materials

Selected resources (to be extended) https://sites.google.com/view/deep-rl-bootcamp/lectures The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning + 15.3.20...

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Учене с подкрепление/подсилване/утвърждение - езикови бележки | Terminology Remarks on Reinforcement Learning Tutorial in Bulgarian

Чудесни практически уроци за начинаещи от С.Пенков, Д.Ангелов и Й.Христов в Дев.бг: Част I Част II Някои терминологични бележки от мен, ДЗБЕ/ДРУБЕ  "Транзиционна функция" - функция на преходите, таблица на преходите. В лекциите от курса "Универсален изкуствен разум" ползвах "подсилване" (може и подкрепление) и подчертавах произхода на термина от поведенческата психология ("бихевиоризъм"). Има връзка и с невропсихологията (действието на допамина) - награждаващите поведения се подкрепят/подсилват (и "затвърждават")...

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Спомени за българската високотехнологична индустрия от фото архивите | Memories from the Bulgarian High-Tech Industry

Снимки от производството и настройката на компютри, електроника и други машини и техника от българския държавен архив от 50-те до 80-те години. From the Bulgarian State Archives, from the 50-ies to the 80-ies. http://www.archives.government.bg/bgphoto/004.08..pdf?fbclid=IwAR0WWNWCCaa41ZXVUSu8himrnqAC_fmIZ25REJ8OHP4DAlD_THpkNzTDWpw Thanks to D. from the Compu  computer museum...

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On the paper: Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control and Conceptual Matches to Todor's Theory of Universe and Mind

Comment on: From "Trends in Cognitive Scinece", vol.22, April 2018.An opinion article  Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control Giovanni Pezzulo, Francesco Rigoli, Karl J.Friston https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.009 It's an excellent paper, would be insightful and accessible for beginners in AGI, psychologists and for seeing the big picture like "On intelligence" etc. and for readers who like divergent thinking and seeing mappings to real agent behavior and "macro" phenomenons. Good questions,...

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US Government Officially Declares AI as a Priority

In order to maintain the "economic and national security":https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/accelerating-americas-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/?fbclid=IwAR33oWgvHXnzmfDrLLx3Qg01KmpLyyPQ8Oy2hZYLu4VK1PRPQSnaC6J2A...

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DARPA's Common Sense Reasoning Program

Bottom-up and top-down reasoning should meet in the middle. DARPA and others seem to have realized that, as well as the importance of Developmental Psychology. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-10-11 Redirected from: https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-future-of-ai-will-be-about-less-data-not-more?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter See a table with AGI/AI startups, key people and directions: https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2016/06/agi-start-ups-and-research-institutes.html ... Interesting...

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Origin of the Term AGI - Artificial General Intelligence

The fellow AGI researcher and developer Peter Voss told the story in his blog in Feb 2017: What is AGI https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/what-is-agi-99cdb671c88e?fbclid=IwAR1rm684qRx-oMZeyKWvioJDbhZT7YvVIp7HSZYpJAjMDsxN5lyow9T5XYM "Just after year 2000" Voss and a few other researchers realized that there were hardware and scientific prerequisites to return to the original goal of AI. At the time they found about "a dozen" other researchers who were involved with research in that direction. Peter, Ben Goertzel and Shane...

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