Dopamine as temporal difference errors !! 🤯

I expect I’m sharing a dopamine burst that I experienced! 🤓

I’m listening to The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian 📚 and it’s explaining how Dayan, Montague, and Sejnowski* connected Wolfram Schultz’s work to the Temporal Difference algorithm (iirc that’s, of course!, from Sutton and Barto).

A quick search returns these to add to my maybe reading list:

• Dopamine and Temporal Differences Learning (Montague, Dayan & Sejnowski, 1996)
• Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI (Deepmind 2020)