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Reinforcement learning can operate without a model, using interaction with the environment instead.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“That is not true in reinforcement learning. In reinforcement you say,”
“well I don't have a model at all, I just have interaction with the environment and that immediately makes the problem more, first of all it makes it more interesting,”
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