http://www.amazon.com/Blondie24-Playing-Kaufmann-Artificial-...
They partially trained their checkers algorithm by playing it online against humans. The funny part was that they couldn't get many opponents until they changed their handle to Blondie24, then game requests came flooding in...
I suspect this is a resurgence of the decades-old idea of using evolutionary algorithms to find weights for neural network nodes.
http://www.amazon.com/Blondie24-Playing-Kaufmann-Artificial-...
They partially trained their checkers algorithm by playing it online against humans. The funny part was that they couldn't get many opponents until they changed their handle to Blondie24, then game requests came flooding in...