Blondie24 : playing at the edge of AI / David B. Fogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fogel, David B.

Series:

The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Machine learning.

Evolutionary computation.

Computer checkers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Other Title:

Blondie twenty-four

Playing at the edge of AI

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Unlike Deep Blue, the celebrated chess machine that beat Garry Kasparov, the former world champion chess player, this evolutionary program didn't have access to strategies employed by human grand masters, or to databases of moves for the endgame moves, or to other human expertise about the

Contents:

Front Cover; BLONDIE 24: Playing at the Edge of AI; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE; CHAPTER 1. INTELLIGENT MACHINES: IMITATING LIFE; CHAPTER 2. DEEP BLUE: A TRIUMPH FOR AI?; CHAPTER 3. BUILDING AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN; CHAPTER 4. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: PUTTING NATURE TO WORK; CHAPTER 5. BLUE HAWAII: A 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 ENVIRONMENTCHAPTER 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-07291-5

9786611072919

0-08-050018-8

0-585-45661-5

OCLC:

437191707