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Subject: Re: Why can't a machine be World's Check
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 07:07:00 EDT
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Samuels (Samuelson?) had a checker program in the mid-fifties which ran
on an IBM 704, I think. It played a quite good game, they said. It had
an adaptive evaluation function so that it was self improving. Check
the literature.