Thoughts on Stanley (DARPA Challenge)

>>From the somewhat breathless text up on Wired:

"This is a watershed moment - much more so than Deep Blue versus
Kasparov," says Justin Rattner, Intel's R&D director. "Deep Blue was
just processing power. It didn't think. Stanley thinks. We've moved
away from rule-based thinking in artificial intelligence. The new
paradigm is based on probabilities. It's based on statistical analysis
of patterns. It is a better reflection of how our minds work."

So, does anybody have any insight on these algorithms? Any links/texts
out there to borrow ideas from?

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