Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence (RLAI)
Rich's slogans
The
ambition
of this web page is to record some slogans that Rich Sutton has found useful in directing his AI research.
Approximate the solution, not the problem (no special cases)
Drive from the problem
Take the agent’s point of view
Don’t ask the agent to achieve what it can’t measure
Don't ask the agent to know what it can't verify
Set measurable goals for subparts of the agent
Discriminitive models are usually better than generative models
Work by orthogonal dimensions. Work issue by issue
Work on ideas, not software
Experience is the data of AI