Lesson Description and Notes

Learn how businesses are using Reinforcement Learning to solve problems. Understand why academics see Deep RL as a step towards AGI.

In this tutorial, we feature a case study of how Google reduced their data center energy bills by 40% by using Deep Reinforcement Learning. We also look at how other industries are using Deep RL to solve business problems.

If you want to go deeper, here are the original news reports on the commercial use cases.

Data Center Energy Usage Reduction

• https://deepmind.com/blog/article/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/17/140987/google-just-gave-control-over-data-center-cooling-to-an-ai/

Trading in Financial Markets

• https://www.ft.com/content/16b8ffb6-7161-11e7-aca6-c6bd07df1a3c

Managing Fleets of Trains

• https://www.instadeep.com/2019/10/instadeep-wins-competitive-tender-with-deutsche-bahn-to-develop-an-ai-system-to-digitise-railway-operations/

Stronger and More Realistic Game Bots

• https://www.wired.com/story/game-makers-inject-ai-develop-more-lifelike-characters/

Warehouse Robots

• https://www.wired.com/story/ai-helps-warehouse-bots-pick-new-skills/

Self Driving Cars

• https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/wayve-claims-world-first-in-driving-a-car-autonomously-with-only-its-ai-and-a-satnav