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RL 6: Pleasure-Seeking Neurons and the Birth of Backpropagation (1972–1980)

Quick recap from Blog 5: Learning Automata could adapt to what was happening right now, but they were hopeless at delayed consequences. A chess move that loses you the game 20 turns later. A word that quietly breaks a sentence three clauses down. They had no way to connect "what I did" with "what h…

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  1. 2026-10-10 21:33 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    RL 6: Pleasure-Seeking Neurons and the Birth of Backpropagation (1972–1980)

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