Reinforcement learning is one of the subcategories of machine learning that you might be most familiar with. It is exactly how it sounds: an agent (being the computer) learns how to interact with an environment by picking actions that result in rewards, a.k.a reinforcements. The main goal of the agent is to receive the highest possible total reward. The agent doesn’t know what the best behavior is, so it learns through trial and error.  Does this sound familiar? Maybe the wor

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The intrigue and mystery around AI continues to grow with the advancements of AI chatbots. However, as people use AI more frequently, there have been instances of weird and incorrect responses. Others have found different models parroting each other like echoes in a cave. In a continued effort to demystify AI for the common and curious user, I present and discuss two issues currently being observed: hallucinations and the AI hivemind. It’s imperative to remember that artifici

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