Discover this podcast and so much more

Podcasts are free to enjoy without a subscription. We also offer ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more for just $11.99/month.

Dopamine, Deep Q Networks, and Hey Alexa!

Dopamine, Deep Q Networks, and Hey Alexa!

FromJournal Club


Dopamine, Deep Q Networks, and Hey Alexa!

FromJournal Club

ratings:
Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Apr 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Today on the show, Lan presents a blog post from Google Deepmind about Dopamine and temporal difference learning. This is the story of a fruitful collaboration between Neuroscience and AI researchers that found the activity of dopamine neurons in the mouse ventral tegmental area during a learnt probabilistic reward task was consistent with distributional temporal-difference reinforcement learning. That's a mouthful, go read it yourself! George presents his first attempts at designing an Auto-Trading Agent with Deep Q Networks. Last but not least, Kyle says "Hey Alexa! Sorry I fooled you ..."    
Released:
Apr 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (27)

Welcome to a brand new show from Data Skeptic entitled "Journal Club". Each episode will feature a regular panel and one revolving guest seat. The group will discuss a few topics related to data science and focus on one featured scholarly paper which is discussed in detail.