Internet slang vs. reward-maximizing agents.
Which meaning of RL is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Real life came first (the 1990s). Reinforcement learning arrived in the 1980s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.
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Real lifeReinforcement learning
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Original · the 1990s
Real life
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Duplicate · the 1980s
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