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Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI?

Posted by Soulskill on from the watch-scifi-movies-from-the-eighties dept.

xmojox writes "I would like to learn more about Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory. I know these are both large areas of study; however, my main interest is in how these affect decisions in the world. This would include politicians, business people, and general society. I'm not looking for a career or anything; this is just a personal interest of mine. Where are good places to start in these areas for somebody new to them? I'm aware of the Stanford on-line classes, but those don't work with my current schedule."

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  1. Russell & Norvig by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd edition. It's supposedly the most-used AI textbook in the world.

    It's weak on the biologically inspired methods (genetic algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy logic), but very solid in "Good Old Fashioned AI" (GOFAI) and some of the decision-making procedures from other fields such as economics.

    If you don't have a background in CS, you'll need to work through a book on discrete math first.

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  2. Re:Stanford AI and Game Theory? by Needlzor · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.ai-class.org, by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig