diff --git a/intermediate_source/reinforcement_ppo.py b/intermediate_source/reinforcement_ppo.py
index 6501e98971e..1b75e21e51a 100644
--- a/intermediate_source/reinforcement_ppo.py
+++ b/intermediate_source/reinforcement_ppo.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 # actually return ``frame_skip`` frames).
 #
 
-device = "cpu" if not torch.has_cuda else "cuda:0"
+device = "cpu" if not torch.cuda.is_available() else "cuda:0"
 num_cells = 256  # number of cells in each layer i.e. output dim.
 lr = 3e-4
 max_grad_norm = 1.0