Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)
What a grave misunderstanding! What he is demonstrating is remembering, or memory.<p>It appears that the state of the mouse is [X, Y, Heading], where X and Y are discrete positions in the available cells.<p>Once the maze has been solved by "a rather involved strategy of trial and error", the solution is saved, and for any of the known states, the mouse "remembers" its way to the exit of the maze.