General Problem Solver

ID: general-problem-solver

The General Problem Solver (GPS) is an early computer program that was developed in the 1950s by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon. It was one of the first attempts to implement a form of artificial intelligence and is notable for being one of the first general-purpose problem-solving systems. GPS was designed to solve a wide range of problems by employing a heuristic search strategy.

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