Gerald Tesauro at IBM developed TD-Gammon, a neural network that learned to play backgammon at a world-class human level using temporal-difference reinforcement learning. Because it trained entirely by playing millions of games against itself, it proved that a reinforcement learning agent could discover complex strategies beyond human expertise without explicit symbolic instructions.
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