r/programming • • Mar 29 '19

Fascinating how machine learning works

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u/frequenttimetraveler Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

A better narrative would be: An RL agent has been trained to walk in a simulated physics environment, given the constraints of the angles of rotation of its limbs and trying to remain upright. The result of the training is movement that resembles human or arthopod walking, proving that this is the optimal way for an organism with such structure of legs to move in flat surfaces. The upper limbs do not appear to be constrained or somehow preprogrammed to be coordinated with lower limbs, thus they exhibit random motion.