
Blondie24
Playing at the Edge of AI
Description
Key Features
- Brings one of the most exciting areas of AI research to life by following the story of Blondie24's development in the lab through her evolution into an expert-rated checkers player, based on her impressive success in Internet competition.
- Explains the foundations of evolutionary computation, simply and clearly.
- Presents complex material in an engaging style for readers with no background in computer science or artificial intelligence.
- Examines foundational issues surrounding the creation of a thinking machine.
- Debates whether the famous Turing Test really tests for intelligence.
- Challenges deeply entrenched myths about the successes and implication of some well-known AI experiments.
- Shows Blondie's moves with checkerboard diagrams that readers can easily follow.
Readership
Table of Contents
- Part 1 - Setting the Stage
Chapter 1 - Intelligent Machines: Imitating Life
Chapter 2 - Deep Blue: A Triumph of AI?
Chapter 3 - Building An Artificial Brain
Chapter 4 - Evolutionary Computation: Putting Nature to Work
Chapter 5 - Blue Hawaii: Natural Selection
Chapter 6 - Checkers
Chapter 7 - Chinook: The Man-machine Checkers Champion
Chapter 8 - Samuel's Learning Machine
Chapter 9 - The Samuel-Newell Challenge
Part 2 - The Making of Blondie
Chapter 10 - Evolving in the Checkers Environment
Chapter 11 - In The Zone
Chapter 12 - A Repeat Performance
Chapter 13 - A New Dimension
Chapter 14 - Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle
Chapter 15 - Blondie24
Epilogue: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Appendix: Your Honor, I Object!
Notes
Index
About the Author
Product details
- No. of pages: 406
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2001
- Published: September 26, 2001
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9781558607835
- eBook ISBN: 9780080500188
About the Author
David Fogel
David B. Fogel is the CEO of Natural Selection, Inc., a company which addresses complex, real-world problems in the areas of industry, medicine, and defense by applying the techniques of evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, knowledge-based systems, and stochastic processes, among other technologies. Dr. Fogel was the founding president of the Evolutionary Programming Society and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including BioSystems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and Journal of Scheduling.