Even AI likes rewards. The ninth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video playlist focuses on reinforcement learning. Scholars see how credit assignments, which are rewards when agents (bots) successfully navigate the environment to accomplish their goal, are the key to reinforcement learning. They also learn about the strategies of exploration and exploitation.

Concepts

artificial intelligence, values, credit, technology resources

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Instructional Ideas

• Have the class discuss the similarities and differences between supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
  

Classroom Considerations

• References previous videos in the series
• Familiarity with reinforcement in an educational setting is beneficial, but not necessary
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Uses a simple example that is easy to follow
• Animations help hold viewer interest
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2