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<p><br><i>Blondie24</i> tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that emulated the basic principles of Darwinian evolution--random variation and natural selection-- to discover on its own how to excel at the game. <br><p><br>Unlike Deep Blue, the celebrated chess machine that beat Garry Kasparov, the former world champion chess player, this evolutionary program didn't have access to strategies employed by human grand masters, or to databases of moves for the endgame moves, or to other human expertise about the game of chekers. With only the most rudimentary information programmed into its "brain," Blondie24 (the program's Internet username) created its own means of evaluating the complex, changing patterns of pieces that make up a checkers game by evolving artificial neural networks---mathematical models that loosely describe how a brain works.<br><p><br>It's fitting that <i>Blondie24</i> should appear in 2001, the year when we remember Arthur C. Clarke's prediction that one day we would succeed in creating a thinking machine. In this compelling narrative, David Fogel, author and co-creator of Blo

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Author

David B. Fogel

Publisher

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, C2002.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611072919

Category

science

Subjects

Computer Science, Fiction, Mathematics

Rating

3.94 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14