Early Wins in Small Worlds
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The field's first decade produced programs that reasoned, played, and learned — each in a small, clean world.
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By 1961 a checkers program that improved through play beat a state champion; theorem provers and block-stackers followed.
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Each clean-world success invited the same extrapolation: scaled-up versions must be near. They were not.