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Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI?
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."
-bone up on your probability (continuous/discrete distributions, transformations, etc)
-grab a book on statistical decision theory like Parmigiani and Inoue or Berger (85).
-read Von Neumann/Morgenstern
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
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.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
www.ai-class.org, by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig
Why? You can just watch the videos instead of doing the homework, or watch them sometime later and do the homework then.
Maybe xmojox isn't around a PC for hours, because of his/her job, and spend a few more hours commuting. Maybe he/she has no tablet that's easily carried. We are not to judge. If we don't believe what's telling us, we may as well think this question is just an attempt at trollling and stop wasting our times.
But if you really had any interest you would be shifting around everything else, including sleep, to take fullest advantage of these classes in real time.
Worst. Advice. Ever. If you don't sleep at least six hours, you'll notice. It isn't sustainable.
On topic: Check Wikipedia's page for Game Theory and go to the citations. There you'll find a few books and other resources you can read.
I rarely respond to comments. Also, don't ask for clarifications: a brain and Google are faster, believe me!