AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 8h ago6/10
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The New Associationism: Lessons from Deep Learning
A new academic paper argues that modern deep learning systems validate associationist theories of human learning, showing that supervised learning with evaluative feedback underlies diverse AI systems from language models to game-playing agents. While this vindicates classical associationist principles of uniform, gradual error-driven learning, the paper emphasizes that contemporary AI success depends on computational architectures far beyond what classical associationists imagined.