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Why does it take us humans only a few minutes to learn how to play a game at a basic level but it takes machines much longer? The answer is that we have prior knowledge of objects, and we can abstract the world in a way that allows us to react to a situation we have never seen before. With written instructions, we are able to perform tasks we have never seen another human do. For my thesis, I plan to explore how to incorporate prior knowledge (knowledge of objects and natural language understanding) with Reinforcement Learning. The eventual goal is to create a more efficient and explainable learning agent.