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HistoryThe machine learned to play by playing againA checkers board became a laboratory for a question that still shapes AI: can a machine get better at a task by trying it?
HistoryBefore AI, a mathematician asked how machines could steerA wartime prediction problem helped give an old idea a new name—and a surprising relevance to AI agents.
HistoryBefore chatbots answered us, we argued about the testThree encounters show how hard it is to decide what a convincing answer proves.
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Alan Turing turned a debate about thought into a game with a judge
The original Transformer was built to translate sentences
Arthur Samuel's checkers program learned more than positions it had seen
Rosenblatt's perceptron treated recognition as something a machine could learn
ELIZA made a conversation out of rules for rearranging words
Dartmouth's 1955 AI proposal began with a wager about what could be described
Backpropagation gave hidden layers a way to learn from errors
AlphaGo Zero learned Go without a library of human games
AlphaGo learned which parts of the game tree were worth searching
AlexNet cut ImageNet errors with a deep network trained on graphics chips