Turing Award: The beast is back - the revival of Reinforcement Learning in the industrial sector

DeepSeek has impressed many and reinforcement learning is getting new attention. However, it was never gone, but is now celebrating a revival. Jan Kountik is one of the most prominent AI experts in the field. We talk to him. We talk to Jan Koutnik about prejudices, approaches and new ideas in reinforcement learning and why new ideas are needed.