AlphaGo: a journey to machine intuition
When IBM’s Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, I was fifteen years old. I didn’t know the significance of the event at the time, nor was I even…
Artificial Intelligence
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How to put that GPU to good use with Python
Graphics chip manufacturers such as NVIDIA and AMD have been seeing a surge in sales of their graphics processors (GPUs) thanks mostly to…
For the love of chess
Nearly twenty years to this day, in May 1997, a machine that IBM built challenged then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to a six game…
Machine learning for fun and profit
Machine learning and artificial intelligence has been going through a phase of democratization to the point that in recent years the…
In the days when Sussman was a novice…
… Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?” asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe,” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?” asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how