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26 Post author: Vika 16 January 2016 08:42PM

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Comment author: XFrequentist 17 January 2016 10:28:49PM *  2 points [-]

Well, there's this ...

[ETA: link is to MIRI's research guide, some traditional AI but more mathy/philosophical. Proceed with caution.]

Comment author: [deleted] 19 January 2016 04:57:45PM 1 point [-]

What does that have to do with artificial intelligence?

Comment author: XFrequentist 19 January 2016 07:01:16PM 0 points [-]

... quite a lot, no?

Comment author: jacob_cannell 21 January 2016 12:25:31AM 2 points [-]

Those links are specific to MIRI's rather idiosyncratic philosophy/math oriented research agenda. If you actually read all those books, you're pretty much committing to knowing very little about practical AI and machine learning, simply by virtue of time opportunity cost.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2016 08:05:55AM *  1 point [-]

There's only two items on that list that are artificial intelligence related. One is an introductory survey textbook, and the other is really about probabilistic reasoning with some examples geared towards AI. The rest has about as much to do with AI as, say, the C++ programming manual.

Comment author: XFrequentist 20 January 2016 06:32:54PM 0 points [-]

Your definition what counts as "AI related" seems to be narrower than mine, but fine. I trust readers can judge whether the linked resources are of interest.