Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Early Wins in Small Worlds
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The idea
The field's first decade produced programs that reasoned, played, and learned — each in a small, clean world.
In practice
By 1961 a checkers program that improved through play beat a state champion; theorem provers and block-stackers followed.
Where people slip
Each clean-world success invited the same extrapolation: scaled-up versions must be near. They were not.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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