13 Toward artificial general intelligence
In this chapter
- You will look back at the algorithms you learned in this book, as well as learn about deep reinforcement learning methods that weren’t covered in depth.
- You will learn about advanced deep reinforcement learning techniques that, when combined, allow agents to display more general intelligence.
- You will get my parting advice on how to follow your dreams and contribute to these fabulous fields of artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning.
Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do.
— John McCarthy Founder of the field of Artificial Intelligence Inventor of the Lisp programming language
In this book, we have surveyed a wide range of decision-making algorithms and reinforcement learning agents; from the planning methods that you learned about in chapter 3 to the state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning agents that we covered in the previous chapter. The focus of this book is to teach the ins and outs of the algorithms; however, there’s more to DRL than what we covered in this book, and I want you to have some direction going forward.