Sony Envisions an AI-Fueled World, From Kitchen Bots to Games wired.com

Kitano now leads a new effort at Sony, announced in November, to infuse cutting-edge AI across the company.
Kitano says Sony believes AI is making such rapid progress that the company needed to make the technology central to its strategy.
LEARN MORE The WIRED Guide to Artificial IntelligenceAlphabet’s DeepMind famously used reinforcement learning to create a program capable of beating one of the world’s best Go players in 2016.
“It's going to be the key.”Besides research demos, reinforcement learning is being tested in areas ranging from finance to logistics.
Research has shown, for example, how reinforcement learning algorithms can sometimes fixate on a reward that results in repetitive and useless behavior.