Symbolic artificial intelligence, a collection of methods based on human-readable symbolic representations, logic, and search, was the dominant paradigm of AI research from the mid-1950s until the mid…
A new interactive feature from MIT Technology Review presents seven puzzles—including mental rotation, Knights and Knaves, and visual challenges—that have stumped AI models, inviting readers to test t…
A new project aims to build a single AI system that can teach itself to play any board game from just the rules and components, without game-specific programming. The effort is framed against 75 years…
Arthur Samuel, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and computer games, began his career as an electrical engineer before moving into computing. While at the University of Illinois, he developed one o…
Arthur Samuel's 1959 definition of machine learning as giving computers the ability to learn without explicit programming is explained, contrasting classic algorithms with ML approaches that learn fro…