Claim · 1995-03 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Tesauro (1995) names board games as a testing ground for approaches in "artificial intelligence and machine learning".

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Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammonuses the name ↓

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Date: 1995-03 · publication Records dated 1995 →

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Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon

Communications of the ACM (HTML transcription by Tom Keith on bkgm.com, copied with permission of the ACM as the page states) · 1995-03

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“widely regarded as an ideal testing ground for exploring a variety of concepts and approaches in artificial intelligence and machine learning.”

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Authors: Gerald Tesauro
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 beccd4d203cbd0c13f13d4bb80364fb7e3957ed0836cc16a63bd147685f9756b). Later HTML transcription of the March 1995 article; figures and tables not reproduced in text.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Gerald Tesauro, “Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon”, 1995-03.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (21 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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