[Chicago] Python for AI?

[Thomas Johnson]

See also
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Lisp-is-highly-used-programming-language-in-AI

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:09 PM Thomas Johnson <thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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