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Blondie24 : playing at the edge of AI /

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<p> Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that emulated the basic principles of Darwinian evolution--random variation and natural selection-- to discover on its own how to excel at the game. <p&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fogel, David B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, [2002]
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence.
Machine learning.
Evolutionary computation.
Computer checkers.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 - Setting the Stage
  • Chapter 1 - Intelligent Machines: Imitating Life
  • Chapter 2 - Deep Blue: A Triumph of AI?
  • Chapter 3 - Building An Artificial Brain
  • Chapter 4 - Evolutionary Computation: Putting Nature to Work
  • Chapter 5 - Blue Hawaii: Natural Selection
  • Chapter 6 - Checkers
  • Chapter 7 - Chinook: The Man-machine Checkers Champion
  • Chapter 8 - Samuel's Learning Machine
  • Chapter 9 - The Samuel-Newell Challenge
  • Part 2 - The Making of Blondie
  • Chapter 10 - Evolving in the Checkers Environment
  • Chapter 11 - In The Zone
  • Chapter 12 - A Repeat Performance
  • Chapter 13 - A New Dimension
  • Chapter 14 - Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle
  • Chapter 15 - Blondie24
  • Epilogue: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
  • Appendix: Your Honor, I Object!
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I : Setting the stage
  • Intelligent machines : imitating life ; Deep Blue : a triumph for AI? ; Building an artificial brain ; Evolutionary computation : putting nature to work ; Blue Hawaii : a natural selection ; Checkers ; Chinook : the man-machine checkers champion ; Samuel's learning machine ; Samuel-Newell challenge
  • II : Making of Blondie
  • Evolving in the checkers environment ; In the zone ; Repeat performance ; New dimension ; Letting the genie out of the bottle ; Blondie24
  • Epilogue : Future of artificial intelligence
  • Your honor, I object!