As Someone Who Knows Little About Artificial Intelligence, What Is the Best Way to Start Learning?

Getty Images How do I start learning about AI? originally appeared on Quora – the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.Answer by Alexey Kurakin, Research Engineer at Google Brain, on Quora:Artificial intelligence in general is a very wide topic. It includes various aspects of machine learning as well as reasoning, knowledge representation and many more. The Wikipedia page for Artificial Intelligence has a high-level overview of the various sub-fields of AI.So to narrow this question down, I would focus my reply on machine learning.First of all, you need to know about software engineering and programming in general because all practical aspects of ML and AI involve writing code.Also to be able to read books and papers and to understand the theory behind machine learning you will need to have some knowledge of math. In particular, the following topics would be very useful: calculus, linear algebra, probability theory and statistics, combinatorics.Then you should read some basic overviews of machine learning. “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by Chris Bishop is a good book to get started. Also take a look at Ian Goodfellow’s answer about his top three favorite books about ML: Which…


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