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General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert A. Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell (RAND Corporation) intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. In contrast to the former Logic Theorist project, the GPS works with means–ends analysis.
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| the Towers of Hanoi that could be sufficiently formalized | instance of | IPL.While GPS solved simple problems | 0.80 | text |
| it could not solve any real-world problems because the search was easily lost in the combinatorial explosion | instance of | IPL.While GPS solved simple problems | 0.80 | text |
| the Towers of Hanoi can become computationally infeasible | instance of | even a straightforward state space search | 0.80 | text |
| albeit judicious prunings of the state space can be achieved by such elementary AI techniques as A | instance of | even a straightforward state space search | 0.80 | text |
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