Julian Togelius - What is AI? Can computers become intelligent through playing games? | Øredev 2017 from chess game machine learning Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 28 min 73 sec
✓ Published: 15-Nov-2017

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Artificial intelligence and games go way back. At least to Turing, who re-invented the Minimax algorithm to play Chess even before he had a computer, and to Samuel, who invented reinforcement learning in order to build a Checkers-playing program in the 1950s. Games are important for AI because they are designed to challenge and train human cognitive capabilities, and are thus uniquely relevant benchmark problems. They are also uniquely convenient benchmark problems, as they allow unbiased compar