Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:36:06 01/28/98
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On January 28, 1998 at 16:38:14, Don Dailey wrote: >>I am not a big Carl Sagan fan, but in one of his books, I believe it was >>The Dragons of Eden, I think he suggested that intelligence is an >>individual's capacity for adaptation. Sorry for the vagueness but I >>read all of his stuff in approximately 1980. >> >>Personally, I think this definition is a good one, better than the one >>in the OED at describing this part of the word's meaning. > >This is not a bad definition. There is a real sense that most chess >programs do not adapt (but there programmers do from version to >version.) > >The learning stuff in some of the programs does try to provide >adaptation >at least weakly. I think they adapt like crazy. Put some pieces on the board and see what happens. They'll always try to find a good move, and often they will succeed, they are general-purpose problem solvers, within the domain of chess. I don't think that learning is a requirement for an AI topic, is it? Adaptation doesn't have to involve repeated encounters with a similar situation, it can come into play when you see a completely new situation. There are lots of places to apply what has traditionally been thought of as AI to chess, not necessarily just in the search. I think Crafty's learning is an interesting AI experiment -- Bob is teaching Crafty to play a series of chess games well rather than just one. I think he should find some examples where it has adapted in order to improve its results against specific opponents, and write something up, I think it would make an interesting article. bruce
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