What François Chollet thinks about motivation

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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1. 31 Oct 2026, 20:25 UTC

   Our readingDopamine spikes highest at reward prediction error rather than for guaranteed rewards.

   Their wordsDopamine does not spike highest for guaranteed rewards. It spikes highest at reward prediction error.

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