Artificial Intelligence Illuminated Presents An Overview Of The Background And History Of Artificial Intelligence, Emphasizing Its Importance In Today’S Society And Potential For The Future. The Book Covers A Range Of AI Techniques, Algorithms, And Methodologies, Including Game Playing, Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, And Artificial Life. Material Is Presented In A Lively And Accessible Manner And The Author Focuses On Explaining How AI Techniques Relate To And Are Derived From Natural Systems, Such As The Human Brain And Evolution, And Explaining How The Artificial Equivalents Are Used In The Real World. Each Chapter Includes Student Exercises And Review Questions, And A Detailed Glossary At The End Of The Book Defines Important Terms And Concepts Highlighted Throughout The Text.
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Suitable for a brief course, inappropriate for a regular one,
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I recently completed the abbreviated January term class at my college where I taught Artificial Intelligence (AI) using this book. The course was an experimental one with the goal being to eventually add it to our regular offerings. While I found this book adequate for the abbreviated session, I will not use it when AI is offered during a regular term.
I found the depth of coverage of most of the topics to be less than what I will need in a full semester course. The topics in the book are exactly what I would cover in such a course, but the examples are limited and too rare in appearance. For example, finite automata are introduced on pages 366-368 but the only example is the simplest possible automaton, a two state acceptor of an even number of a's. Some of the notations were confusing and quite frankly unnecessarily so. A few additional words of explanation would have prevented a simple concept from appearing so complex. The pseudo-code used to demonstrate alpha-beta pruning was close to incomprehensible, although the example was simple. These examples and many others just made the book too hard to read.
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A Thorough Introduction and Beyond!,
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This is an excellent book. It covers all aspects of AI in a friendly, clear manner. Despite being written as an undergraduate textbook it is easily accessible to someone like myself who is not doing a course in computing (or anything else for that matter).
The subject manner is handled well with enough diagrams and examples to ensure that you understand even the more esoteric concepts. It is presented in a manner that is enjoyable to read with many asides into the interesting applications in the real world (such as using AI in games programs like chequers and chess). All in all I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in AI from any perspective, whether you are studying in a university or are just interested in learning more about AI in general.
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My undergraduate AI class used this textbook. The writing was never dry and provided lots of information for someone new to the field of AI.
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Although Artificial Intelligence is one of the newest fields of intellectual research, its foundations began thousands of years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fuzzy reasoning, intelligent agents, emergent behavior, fuzzy expert systems, recurrent networks, fuzzy inference, preclassified training data, uniform cost search, partial order plan, quinine dose, static evaluation function, blocks world problem, min node, goal node, planning graph, cannibals problem, best human players, messy genetic algorithms, game tree, max node, inductive bias, following chromosome, cluster layer, goal trees, nondeterministic search Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Springer Verlag, Review Questions, Further Reading, Towers of Hanoi, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Prisoner's Dilemma, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, United States, New York, Advanced Search, John Wiley, Game Playing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Conway's Life, Search Methodologies, Planning Methods, Traveling Salesman, Deep Blue, Oxford University Press, Understanding Language Browse Sample Pages:
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fuzzy reasoning, intelligent agents, emergent behavior, fuzzy expert systems, recurrent networks, fuzzy inference, preclassified training data, uniform cost search, partial order plan, quinine dose, static evaluation function, blocks world problem, min node, goal node, planning graph, cannibals problem, best human players, messy genetic algorithms, game tree, max node, inductive bias, following chromosome, cluster layer, goal trees, nondeterministic search Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Springer Verlag, Review Questions, Further Reading, Towers of Hanoi, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Prisoner's Dilemma, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, United States, New York, Advanced Search, John Wiley, Game Playing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Conway's Life, Search Methodologies, Planning Methods, Traveling Salesman, Deep Blue, Oxford University Press, Understanding Language Browse Sample Pages:
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