The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with ...

The Coldest Kind of Revenge

These days, revenge literature arrives most often as a sordid memoir or roman à clef in which grievances are reco ...

Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?

In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “ Challenge ,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker. Its premise ...

The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Credit...The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff We’re a third of the way through 2026 and we at ...

The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder

Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the ...
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A Survey of Quantum Reinforcement Learning Approaches: Current Status and Future Research Directions

Abstract: This work presents a detailed survey of Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL), describing its fundamental principles and applications. By illustrating several research works, we provide the ...

Toyota's CUE7 robot shoots hoops using AI

Toyota debuted CUE7, an AI-powered humanoid robot that learned to shoot free throws through trial and error, in front of 8,400 fans at Toyota Arena Tokyo.
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Multimodal Feature Fusion for Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Mobile Robot Navigation

Abstract: Robust navigation in complex and dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Traditional RL methods often rely on single-modality inputs, ...