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#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

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Reinforcement Learning Is What Is Really Interesting to Me About Psychology Anyway?

In the 1980s, Hinton was in a research group at Bellcore. He read Rich Sutton's 1984 TD paper and thought it was just like ideas that somehow seeped into his mind. So he asked Dave Ackley to come down and give him a talk about what they had just talked about. And so I kind of tried to invent reinforcement learning.

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