[Chicago] Python for AI?

[Thomas Johnson]

I think perhaps your prof is not covering modern history in machine
learning. I don't think LISP is very common in AI anymore. The ML world is
dominated mostly by Python, R, and Matlab as high-level languages and C++
for low-level work (with maybe some FORTRAN for really hard-core math
routines).

In fact, I would say Python is probably one of the leading AI languages,
probably even the top language when combined with C++ (although there's a
lot of cutting-edge statistical stuff that's still only available in R or
Matlab). For example, Theano (http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/) is
a widely-used library for Deep Learning, and Google's new TensorFlow (
https://www.tensorflow.org/) has bindings for C++ and Python. Plus of
course there's Scikit-Learn (http://scikit-learn.org/). There's even a
whole python distribution (https://www.continuum.io/why-anaconda
<https://www.continuum.io/downloads>) whose sole purpose is to get you set
up quickly for data science work in Python.

That's just a handful of the tools available in Python

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm taking an AI class at Northeastern.  Interesting class, but sadly no
> programming in the class.  More a survey course covering the history and
> some of the algorithms of AI.  However, the prof wants us to write a paper
> on AI that's due some time in April.  We're free to choose whatever topic
> we want, as long as it's related to AI.  Something that might be fun to
> write about is Python for AI.... maybe?  I know that LISP is usually the
> language of choice for AI research, and I've been playing around with Lisp
> lately using the Clozure CL IDE.  Definitely a nice language, although it
> will take me a couple more days to get comfortable with Lisp's prefix
> notation.  But what about Python?  Does anyone on this list have any
> experience with Python for AI?  Can you recommend any books or websites or
> articles?  If so, please let me know.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> Douglas.
>
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