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Expert: Chuck Cosby - 11/1/2009
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Hi Chuck,
My experience is in software development/programming c/c++. How can I learn AI on my own? Are there some pre-requisites or subjects that must be learned first? I learned automata, and theory of compilers years ago in the late '80s when I studied computer science. Sometimes I read about AI topics, but cannot see how they can be applied to solve a problem, or how can they be implemented in software...
I'm all ears for your suggestions. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Richard
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There are many good college programs - MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge for example. Also, do internet searches on terms like 'natural language recognition' 'Speech recognition' 'Vision Processing' 'Robotics' These searches will tell you a lot about AI. My area of interest is in Natural Language Understanding. This is where the computer attempts to understand human language and converse with people in a natural and conversational fashion. Speech Recognition is a related aspect of this. There is also vision recognition; Face recognition has gotten a lot of press lately and this area of research has progressed well in recent years. There is also the idea of an 'Expert System'. These have been around for a long time. For example, the system might ask a series of health questions and then diagnose an illness. Then there is the entire field of robotics, although this is mostly a combination of all of the above with some engineering and hardware components. I recommend the LEGO Mindware robotics system if you want to get started with that angle.
Some Web Sites:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//index2.html
http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/
http://start.csail.mit.edu/
http://www.w3.org/TR/ngram-spec/
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