{"id":139296,"date":"2022-05-13T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-ai-powered-light-system-could-spell-the-end-of-traffic-jams"},"modified":"2022-05-13T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:03:05","slug":"new-ai-powered-light-system-could-spell-the-end-of-traffic-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-ai-powered-light-system-could-spell-the-end-of-traffic-jams","title":{"rendered":"New AI-powered light system could spell the end of traffic jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-powered-light-system-could-spell-the-end-of-traffic-jams.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep reinforcement learning.<\/p>\n<p>The system is so efficient because it uses deep reinforcement learning, meaning it actually adapts its processes when it is not doing well and continues improving when it makes progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have set this up as a traffic control game. The program gets a \u2018reward\u2019 when it gets a car through a junction. Every time a car has to wait or there\u2019s a jam, there\u2019s a negative reward. There\u2019s actually no input from us; we simply control the reward system,\u201d said Dr. Maria Chli, a reader in Computer Science at Aston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep reinforcement learning. The system is so efficient because it uses deep reinforcement learning, meaning it actually adapts its processes when it is not doing well and continues improving when it makes progress. \u201cWe have set this up as a traffic control game. The program gets a \u2018reward\u2019 when it gets a car through a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}