Logical, not biological Evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks—they’re all AI methods that were inspired by nature. But what about other methods that have nothing to do with the brain or natural selection, or anything of the sort. Today, we take a quick look at a few AI algorithms that are logical without imitating the biological. Here are a couple videos on Naive Bayes. 5 Minutes With Ingo: Naïve Bayes Text Categorization with Naive Bayes Here’s an article explaining how a tree search works. Sudokus and Schedules Here’s an article on building a chess playing program. A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI Here are a couple of articles about expert systems, Brad’s favorite. Expert Systems Putting Expert Systems to Work