Invisible wrote:
> Paul Fuller wrote:
> 
>> So it *is* the matchboxes that learn.
> 
> More exactly, it's the algorithm for changing the contents of the 
> matchboxes that learns. Not the matchboxes themselves.

No, because the algorithm is the same at the start of each game. The 
algorithm *teaches*.  The matchboxes *learn."


On a side note, I saw a fun idea for an AI game a long time ago. In a 
similar vein, the program knew the legal moves and what constituted a win or 
loss, and would enforce that. The program would play based on this idea of 
wins add probability and loses subtract probability. But the human player 
wasn't told the rules. The game was whether you could figure out the rules 
and strategies before the game learned well enough to be unbeatable.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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