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According to Sutton and Barto (2018), Samuel (1959) proposed and implemented a learning method that included temporal-difference ideas, in his checkers-playing program. Copy claim link
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (second edition) ↗ MIT Press; author-hosted PDF (incompleteideas.net) · 2018
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Source excerpt “Arthur Samuel (1959) was the first to propose and implement a learning method that included” Location in source PDF p. 42, section 1.7
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Source details and check notes Authors Richard S. Sutton; Andrew G. Barto Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 2dd0d71d9ee883fbeb99f9b888c65ac3255fae2512203d11b18e838befffe9a6). Author-hosted PDF of the second edition, copyright 2018, 2020 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Ligatures such as "ff" are mis-encoded in the text layer; quotations avoid them. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto, “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (second edition)”, 2018. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (15 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. The quotation stops before a mis-encoded ligature in "temporal-difference". The source role is primary for this record: the passage is the citing text’s own attribution, which is what the record states (corrected at admission; the pack had secondary, relative to the work credited). A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 74) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (second edition) ↗ MIT Press; author-hosted PDF (incompleteideas.net) · 2018
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Source excerpt “as part of his celebrated checkers-playing program” Location in source PDF p. 42, section 1.7
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Source details and check notes Authors Richard S. Sutton; Andrew G. Barto Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 2dd0d71d9ee883fbeb99f9b888c65ac3255fae2512203d11b18e838befffe9a6). Author-hosted PDF of the second edition, copyright 2018, 2020 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Ligatures such as "ff" are mis-encoded in the text layer; quotations avoid them. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto, “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (second edition)”, 2018. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (7 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. The source role is primary for this record: the passage is the citing text’s own attribution, which is what the record states (corrected at admission; the pack had secondary, relative to the work credited). A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 74) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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