(This title already mentioned, but not as a top-level comment) For general Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig. It’s very broad but still deep enough to get a feel for a lot of areas, with some advantages of scale due to certain exmples and consistent notation being used across many areas. It’s also a much easier read than Bishop’s ML book already mentioned for Machine Learning stuff, though Bishop’s book is much more specialized.
To get an idea of the difference in scope AIMA covers planning algorithms, NLP, decision theory and even FAI (though pretty much by mention only).
Not this general kind of AI coverage, but I’ve read a number of books in data mining and some specialized aspects of AI such as Bayes nets and NLP. It compares very favorably in terms of presentation quality; I am not aware of another book this broad which was potentially worth reading based on my “information olfactory sense” (I’d like to hear of one if anyone has a suggestion) .
(This title already mentioned, but not as a top-level comment) For general Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig. It’s very broad but still deep enough to get a feel for a lot of areas, with some advantages of scale due to certain exmples and consistent notation being used across many areas. It’s also a much easier read than Bishop’s ML book already mentioned for Machine Learning stuff, though Bishop’s book is much more specialized.
To get an idea of the difference in scope AIMA covers planning algorithms, NLP, decision theory and even FAI (though pretty much by mention only).
But, have you ready any other books on AI, to which you can compare it?
Not this general kind of AI coverage, but I’ve read a number of books in data mining and some specialized aspects of AI such as Bayes nets and NLP. It compares very favorably in terms of presentation quality; I am not aware of another book this broad which was potentially worth reading based on my “information olfactory sense” (I’d like to hear of one if anyone has a suggestion) .
Russell and Norvig do seem to have the only general A.I. textbook out there that I can find...
There’s artint.info, which I found helpful during ai-class
Yeah, I’ve found a couple others since I made the above comment in January 2011, too.