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Natasha Jaques

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

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The Future of Machine Learning and Climate Action

Deep RL gets you something really powerful which is generalizing over related states in when the state space is really high dimensional. And I don't think other methods are going to be able to do that in the same way. One part of this paper that jumped out at me at the end of the fourth page it says, while we hope the ML will be useful in reducing the costs associated with climate action, humanity also must decide to act. So much of machine learning today is focused on influencing people to click on ads. But there is a lot of work that shows like people if you want to spur behavior change, one of the most effective ways to do that is actually with social motivation.

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