A Poor Man's Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the many ways to implement artificial intelligence (AI). AI is the design of “intelligent” agents that maximize their chances of success at some goal. The goal can belong to any problem: from winning a game of tic-tac-toe, to recognizing speech, to steering a car. A problem can be approached in many different ways. An agent can search for all possible options and choose the best.