Re: Turing test

["Jill Irving" <jirving@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 29,  8:31am, keith reid-green wrote:
> Subject: [CM>] CM> Checkers
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> In the 1950s somebody (at IBM?) wrote a checkers program that was
> self-learning.  He programmed the computer's moves only to follow the rules
> of checkers--no intelligence in the computer program, except that when the
> machine lost a game, it retained all the board positions for that game and
> tried not to replicate any of them in subsequent games.  The author claimed
> that after about 15 games the computer won one, lost the next two and was
> unbeatable thereafter.
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> I would like to read a primary source description of this early machine
> intelligence experiment.  Can anybody cite the source material, or better
> yet, send me a copy?
>
> Keith
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> Keith S. Reid-Green
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