Better Than The Programmer: Samuel's 1959 Checkers Learner, And The Agents That Trained AI.

Better Than The Programmer: Samuel's 1959 Checkers Learner, And The Agents That Post-Trained A Base Model In 104 Hours. In July 1959, an IBM researcher named Arthur L. Samuel published a paper with a

Better Than The Programmer: Samuel's 1959 Checkers Learner, And The Agents That Post-Trained A Base Model In 104 Hours. In July 1959, an IBM researcher named Arthur L. Samuel published a paper with a modest title and an immodest claim. The title was "Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers," and it ran in the IBM Journal of Research and Development. The claim sat in the first paragraph. Samuel wrote: "Enough work has been done to verify the fact that a computer can be program