What are the pre-requesites for learning Artificial Intelligence?

Question

Thanks

Answer 1

Actually, Benno Hansen's answer isn't much of a joke. It's the truth. Many AI researchers turned to philosophy and understanding natural intelligence before really understanding what AI should be based on.

Originally, it was thought that intelligent people play chess well (which is true) so if you could make a machine play chess, it must be intelligent. The truth is it's not, it's still processing binary to compute moves and knows nothing about the game going on or its opponent.

A good basis would be knowledge of programming languages and data structures combined with understanding philosophy behind intelligence.

Answer 2

Ah yes, my emerging field.

You will need to know:
Computer science principles
Programming, probably C++ and or LISP and other languages won’t hurt.
Intelligence Theory

Familiarity/understanding/knowledge of/with:
Cognitive Psychology
Heuristics
Non-monotonic Logic
Mathematics
Graph Theory
Chaos Theory
Set Theory
Calculus
Cognitive Architecture
First Order Predicate Logic
Neuroscience
Linguistics
Computer Hardware

Answer 3

Natural Intelligence ;-)


(sorry for joking)

Answer 4

it depends on if you want to go into the feild, or if you just want to learn. you can learn sooo much just by going on the internet to reasearch. its what ive done and it would certaintly be a first step.

Answer 5

Sure