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A machine translated Russian in 1954. By 1966 the arithmetic had turned against it.
Warren Weaver's cryptographic analogy made fully automatic translation look close, and the two arguments that finally stopped it, one about meaning and one about cost, were each reading real evidence.
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Arthur Samuel's checkers program learned by chasing its own deeper guess
On an IBM 701 with a few thousand words of storage, Samuel's program already separated memorizing positions from generalizing over them, and it never beat the champion the legend later handed it.