Population Learning In ChessWritten by Alex ArmstrongSaturday, 15 December 2012 00:00http://www.i-programmer.info Swarm intelligence is an often used idea in AI, but do human populations improve at tasks? Is there a population learning effect in, say the game of chess, or...
Chess robots have trouble grasping the game
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Something strange is going on
Artificial intelligence: will we be aware when we’ve made a breakthrough? The solution to many industrial, scientific and governmental problems will continue to defy human abilities, argues Professor Peter Cochrane Written by Peter CochraneComputing, 08 Jul 2010 When chess...
Not clever enough to fool humans
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Integrating intelligent robots
Learning to love robots(The Guardian)27 March 2008 London, 1977: the international grandmaster Michael Stean is losing to Chess 4.6, a computer programme developed at Northwestern University, Illinois. Stean is steamed: he is losing. Chess 4.6 is, he says, “an...