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Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by paraschopra on Saturday April 18, 2009 @02:21AM (#568130)
While the book is good, it lacks the statistical approach to AI and ML. Currently, most of the AI or ML is done in statistical fashion and I think this book does not do justice in introducing those topics well.
Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by schtog on Saturday April 18, 2009 @03:02AM (#568151)
? chater 5 to 7 seem to cover that pretty well.

Part V Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning 13 Uncertainty 14 Probabilistic Reasoning 15 Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time 16 Making Simple Decisions 17 Making Complex Decisions Part VI Learning 18 Learning from Observations 19 Knowledge in Learning 20 Statistical Learning Methods (pdf) 21 Reinforcement Learning Part VII Communicating, Perceiving, and Acting 22 Communication 23 Probabilistic Language Processing 24 Perception 25 Robotics Part VIII Conclusions 26 Philosophical Foundations 27 AI: Present and Future Bibliography (pdf and counts) Index (html or pdf)

Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by vang3lis on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:33AM (#568242)
what would you recommend to supplement Russel&Norvig?
Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by plinkplonk on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:53AM (#568255)
"what would you recommend to supplement Russel&Norvig?"

Elements Of Statistical learning( http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ )

Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by paraschopra on Saturday April 18, 2009 @11:55AM (#568414)
I would rather recommend Machine Learning video course from Stanford by Andrew Ng.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop is good too

Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by jacoblyles on Saturday April 18, 2009 @11:46AM (#568407)
Everybody I meet in industry and academia has a copy of Bishop's "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning". It's pretty comprehensive.

The most recent version of Russell and Norvig does have a solid statistics section in it, but they don't start it until the middle of the book.

Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by mrduncan on Saturday April 18, 2009 @02:13PM (#568555)
My vote goes to Programming Collective Intelligence (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/)