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The concept of minimizing regret highlights the importance of learning from the mistakes of the model. By plotting approximate regret against a proposed notion of learnability, researchers aspire to gauge how well the AI can perform under different environmental conditions. The realization, however, is that historical regret approximations often fall short of capturing an accurate representation of learnability. Consequently, researchers shifted their focus from merely minimizing regret to optimizing for learnability directly, thereby potentially revealing more effective pathways for developing AI systems that can generalize well to novel tasks.