Sixty-five years ago, Arthur Samuel went on TV to show the world how the IBM 701 plays checkers. He was interviewed on a live morning news program, si

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Sixty-five years ago, Arthur Samuel went on TV to show the world how the IBM 701 plays checkers. He was interviewed on a live morning news program, sitting remotely at the 701, with Will Rogers Jr. at the TV studio, together with a checkers expert who played with the computer for about an hour. Three years later, in 1959, Samuel published “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers,” in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, coining the term “machine learning.” He defined it as the “programming of a digital computer to behave in a way which, if done by human beings or animals, would be described as involving the process of learning.”

On February 24, 1956, Arthur Samuel’s Checkers program, which was developed for play on the IBM 701, ... [+] was demonstrated to the public on television

A few months after Samuel’s TV appearance, ten computer scientists convened in Dartmouth, NH, for the first-ever workshop on artificial intelligence, defined a year earlier by John McCarthy in the proposal for the workshop as “making a machine behave in ways that would be called intelligent if a human were so behaving.”

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