In July 1959, Arthur Samuel developed one of the first agents to play the game of checkers. What constitutes an agent that plays checkers can be best described in Samuel’s own words, “…a computer [that] can be programmed so that it will learn to play a better game of checkers than can be played by …

Ethical issues aside, should you be honest when asked how certain you are about some belief? Of course, it depends. In this blog post, you’ll learn on what. Different ways of evaluating probabilistic predictions come with dramatically different degrees of “optimal honesty”. Perhaps surprisingly, the linear function that assigns +1 to true and fully confident statements, …