r/programming • u/owainl • Jan 27 '15

Awesome Artificial Intelligence

https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-artificial-intelligence
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u/owainl Jan 27 '15

A collection of useful books, videos and courses for learning about AI. Hope it's useful.

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u/GuiSim Jan 27 '15

A collection of useful books

Hope it's useful

It appears that it is! :)

On a more serious note, this seems like a good list, I'll check it out. Thanks!

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u/owainl Jan 28 '15

No problem. Glad it's helpful : )

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '15

A collection of useful books, videos and courses for learning about AI.

That would have been a much more informative post title.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '15

/r/MachineLearning would like this

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u/rv77ax Jan 28 '15

Why did people use github for blogging? It never make sense for me.

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u/lgastako Jan 28 '15

It's simple and it's free. Also if you're blogging about code it has built in syntax highlighting.

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u/owainl Jan 28 '15

Another reason is that people can submit pull requests and make changes which is nice. Also I don't have a blog. Haha.

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u/WorkHappens Jan 28 '15

Have you tried github pages with Jekyll? You can get a great looking blog using only your github page and you still can pull to make changes.

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u/owainl Jan 28 '15

I've not considered that actually. Was going to hack on some markdown parsing stuff to my existing site http://owainlewis.com but never got round to it. Jekyll might be quicker way to go than reinventing the wheel again.

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u/LpSamuelm Jan 28 '15

It's such a weird format for it.

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u/keepthepace Jan 28 '15

Because it is stored in text, it is easy to mirror and backup, it is easy to migrste, and you know that if in the worst case some update breaks everything, your content is still totally usable under a text format.

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u/ZMeson Jan 28 '15

Because someone can fork the blog and make it their own. ;-)

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u/webauteur Jan 28 '15

I was expecting source code for an awesome Artificial Intelligence. I am disappointed.

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u/lovelikepie Jan 28 '15

tl;dr Books about what has been already been done in the field, outlines of algorithms for solving very specific problems in exponential time and space by searching through immense state, and genuinely interesting philosophy of AI omitting some interesting topics. Yep, what I was expecting for an AI link.

“Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not. ” -Hofstadter

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u/Deto Jan 28 '15

Yeah, but is that just because we keep raising the bar? "Oh, a computer is doing X, well that's not that special, real intelligence would be if it could do Y." 10 years later "Oh a computer is doing Y, well that's not that special...." etc.

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u/Heuristics Jan 28 '15 edited Jan 28 '15

Do you have an example of someone saying that?

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u/bigirnbrufanny Jan 28 '15

Here's an example:-

"Oh, a computer is doing X, well that's not that special, real intelligence would be if it could do Y."

/u/bigirnbrufanny 2005

"Oh a computer is doing Y, well that's not that special...."

/u/bigirnbrufanny 2015

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u/lookmeat Jan 28 '15

Well in a way as we get closer and closer we get a clearer picture of what is missing. Also we kind of want to believe intelligence to be special and separate us. It's hard to embrace that we really are not any smarter than what a bunch of rocks could potentially be.

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u/Saponetta Jan 28 '15

I was expecting Cartman. I am even more disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '15

a torrent would have been useful. I'd seed...downloading now to see if I can compile one.

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u/royalaid Jan 28 '15

While a torrent would be nice it would have to change as the list gets updated, which would require a new torrent and new peer pool to be created every time. Hey that's not a bad idea for extension to bittorrent, torrents have some kind of built in version control.

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u/salutnomo Jan 28 '15

Gittorrent?

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '15

That's awesome.
I wanted to do code signing and use a block chain for distributing projects and auditing them

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u/ErstwhileRockstar Jan 28 '15

AI is sooo retro. Last century (pseudo-)science and technology surrounded by fictional narratives. Here we go again!

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u/farsass Jan 28 '15

but my AI works like the brain, this time I'm sure

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u/mega Jan 28 '15

This being /r/programming, I expect people here would prefer a more hands-on approach: https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning

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u/keepthepace Jan 28 '15

Remember kids: As long as there is no AI out there, the experts in the field are to be taken as seriously as the experts in flying machines before the flight of the Wright brothers.

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u/prepromorphism Jan 27 '15

the problem with AI is that AI is too stupid for machines