Developing a generalized intelligent agent by processing information on webpages

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 41).In this thesis, I designed and implemented a framework for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to interact with a web environment. With this framework, I introduce a new challenge for RL agents to learn human activity on the web. By defining a series of tasks such as using the web as a navigable resource to perform actions, I introduce an extension to natural language processing models. The framework provides an agent with rich features including element positioning, color, and size in order to process text represented in a 2D web space..by Phillip Gabriel Hege.M. Eng