Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in computer gaming and artificial intelligence who coined the term machine learning in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs and an early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence; he was also a senior member of the TeX community who wrote an early TeX manual in 1983.
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How did Arthur Samuel's checkers program improve its own play?
Through rote learning of positions it had seen, reevaluation against professional games, and thousands of games against itself.
Samuel built in several learning mechanisms. In what he called rote learning, the program remembered every position it had already seen, along with the terminal value of the reward function, which effectively extended the search depth at each of those positions. His later programs reevaluated the reward function using input from professional games, and he also had the program play thousands of games against itself. With this work the program reached a respectable amateur level and was the first to play any board game at that level, and he kept working on checkers until the mid-1970s.
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Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 - July 29, 1990) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.
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Arthur Lee Samuel
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Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer Pioneer Award.
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It was invented in 1954 by Gene Amdahl, Elaine M. McGraw, and Arthur Samuel (and, independently, by Andrey Yershov) and first analyzed in 1963 by Donald Knuth.
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It was invented in 1954 by Gene Amdahl, Elaine M. McGraw, and Arthur Samuel (and, independently, by Andrey Yershov) and first analyzed in 1963 by Donald Knuth.
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