Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine
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Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine
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The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by returning a move for any given state of play and to refine its strategy through reinforcement learning. Michie did not have a computer readily available, so he worked around this restriction by building it out of matchboxes. The ma
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Mechanical computer made of matchboxes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_Crosses_Engine
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2020-05-17T11:54:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T08:45:33Z
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