In psychology, this is called "Reinforcement"[1] and that goes back to Skinner (1938) and Thorndike (1911). In AI research its called "Reinforcement learning"[

In psychology, this is called "Reinforcement"[1] and that goes back to Skinner (1938) and Thorndike (1911). In AI research its called "Reinforcement learning"[2]. One of the earliest papers relating reinforcement learning to AI was “Theory of Neural-Analog Reinforcement Systems”[3] by Minsky, 1954 A cool reinforcement learning demo is the DeepMind Atari video from last year[4] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning [3] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/36374626_Theory_of_neural-analog_reinforcement_systems_and_its_application_to_the_brain-model_problem http://www.researchgate.net/publication/36374626_Theory_of_n... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ (this is awesome)