New model frames human reinforcement learning in the context of memory and habits

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...
The Scientist

Artificial Neural Networks: Learning by Doing

Article reviewed by Grace Lindsay, PhD from New York University. Scientists design ANNs to function like neurons. 6 They write lines of code in an algorithm such that there are nodes that each contain ...
Ars Technica

How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the semester, there was a lecture about neural networks. This ...