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The fundamental beauty of modern AI is its generality as a tool

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The fundamental beauty of modern AI is its generality as a tool.

• Reinforcement learning: a loop where the agent observes the state of its environment and then takes an action that alters that state. Gets rewarded for it. The agent learns to maximize its expected reward.

• RL was tedious because it was very stack-dependent. Was the problem with your Atari-bot the algo or the emulation environment you jury rigged on the Linux server and speeded up 1 million fold?

• OpenAI created the Gym environment manager in 2016 and handed it off to the Farama open-source foundation in 2022.