Nostalgia: early AI researchers dared to map RL concepts to brain neuromodulators
fleetwood___ · x · 2026-11-01
The author muses that AI researchers of the old days were bolder: they mapped reinforcement learning concepts to different neuromodulators in the brain and even explained depression via value discounting — cross-disciplinary ambition rarely seen today.
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