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Comment author: Manfred 18 January 2016 03:41:14AM 3 points [-]

Assuming you have some exposure to linear algebra, calculus, and a little programming, I recommend Andrew Ng's machine learning course on youtube. AI: A Modern Approach is still a good textbook, but I think machine learning specifically is where interesting stuff is happening right now.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 20 January 2016 06:08:59PM 0 points [-]

There is also an argument for doing stuff that's less in vogue right now.

Comment author: Manfred 20 January 2016 09:34:02PM 0 points [-]

Sure... but machine learning is very important for AGI, it's not going to suddenly get replaced with hand-designed agents. This advice might apply better to subfields, like deep neural networks vs. hierarchical Bayesian models.