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10: Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning

Vahe Hagopian, Taka Hasegawa, Farrukh Rahman Season 1 Episode 10

We discuss Sony AI's accomplishment of creating a novel AI agent that can beat professional racers in Gran Turismo. Some topics include:
- The crafting of rewards to make the agent behave nicely
- What is QR-SAC?
- How to deal with "rare" experiences in the replay buffer

Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04357-7