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Reinforcement Learning Analogy - Video Games

Video games often involve completing levels, with increasing difficulty as you go through the game. In each level, you go in completely blind and make decisions that will either lead to you passing that level or failing. If you fail, you will now understand more about that particular level that will influence your decisions when you retry. In other words, you will understand what not to do, and try another approach. If you pass, you will understand what to do in future levels. This process is repeated until success. This is very similar to how reinforcement learning works. Rewards are given for successes, indicating that the decision(s) made are correct and should be learned for future use. Penalties are given for a failure, indicating that the decision(s) made should not be retried and instead a new approach should be used.

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Updated 2020-03-08

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