Do you recommend a good artificial intelligence book?

[Paul Rubin]

"Tolga" <tolgacavdar at gmail.com> writes:
> Is there anybody here interested in artificial intelligence (AI)? Yes,
> perhaps this thread would be more suitable for an AI usenet group and I
> have also posted my question there, but I want to know Python
> community's opinion. Could you recommend me please a good AI book to
> start with? I don't want to see Lisp code, if possible ;-D

The classic is Winston and Horn's, which uses Lisp.  You can think of
it as Python with more parentheses if you want.  There's an old book
by Nilsson which is more theoretical.