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Samuel's checkers program

1 July 1959

Learned to play checkers better than its author on an IBM 701.

Also: Samuel Neural Checkers

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Described in 1

Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers1959

Developed by 1

IBM1911

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Date: 1 July 1959
Era: The symbolic era
Organization: IBM
Domain: Games
Task: Checkers
Parameters: 16
Training compute: 4.3e8 FLOP
Country: United States of America
Notable for: Highly cited, Historical significance
Frontier model: Yes, by Epoch's definition
Epoch confidence: Likely

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