Introduction

Question 1

What’s the definition of an autonomous system?

Answer 1

An autonomous system operates independently from other systems by having their own decision-making process

Question 2

What are the 3 fundamental areas of machine learning?

Answer 2

1. Supervised learning
2. Reinforcement learning
3. Unsupervised learning

Question 3

Describe the main differences between reinforcement learning and supervised learning.

Answer 3

1. There is no ground truth (pairs of true input/ output signals) only a reward function
2. The reward may be (is) delayed
3. Data is sequential
4. Agent actions may affect the subsequent data (closed-loop systems).
5. The agent’s actions are determined from a policy and the algorithm improves this policy to maximize rewards.