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The Summer Everything Seemed Possible

  1. 01The Summer Everything Seemed Possible
  2. 02The summer of the big bet
  3. 03The word they invented
  4. 04The Logic Theorist
  5. 05What the program was actually doing
  6. 06Memory Card
  7. 07Intelligence as search
  8. 08See it for yourself
  9. 09Where search breaks down
  10. 10The size of the problem
  11. 11Just the shape
  12. 12The optimism trap
  13. 13What they got right
  14. 14Reinforce your understanding
  15. 15Question: Logic Theorist
  16. 16Question: The greedy trap
  17. 17Question: The hidden scale
  18. 18Quiz: answer
  19. 19The door was open
  20. 20Want to go deeper?
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See it for yourself

You and the machine share one rule: always move to whichever cell looks closest to G.

You go first. Then it's the machine's turn.

In maze 1, the rule works. In maze 2, watch what happens when an unseen trap blocks the obvious path.

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