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From: "Antti "Andy" Ylikoski" on 15 Jun 2010 15:57
14.6.2010 21:55, Pascal J. Bourguignon kirjoitti:
> "Antti \"Andy\" Ylikoski"<antti.ylikoski(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 12.6.2010 22:54, Pascal J. Bourguignon kirjoitti:
>>> bolega<gnuist006(a)gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> [PAIP]
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything in this old norvig book that makes it worth
>>>> pursuing as a text ?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>
>> I agree with his criticism that the book is "old", mine stems from the
>> year 1992.
>
> That's not "old". An old book is one that is falling in powder when
> you're reading it. Eg. the Quran manuscripts are "old". But any book
> since Gutenberg's invention is not old. For a book, that is.
>
>


Oh yes, you are quite right.

As AI people do know, the meaning of a word depends on its context, and
on the semantics of the text where it occurs.

So in this context "old" means "(at least partially) obsolete".

To the best of my knowledge Norvig's book contains nothing obsolete or
outdated!!!! It is a splendid textbook in any respect. (I have no
business interests in advertising any one of these books..... As I said,
I would love to see also matter-of-fact criticism.)

One of my observations in life is that there exist two skills which are
difficult but highly useful: the skill of saying no; and the skill of
being wrong.

>
>> I bought and studied the Russell-Norvig books on "Artificial
>> Intelligence: A Modern Approach", ie. the 1th, 2nd (and in the future
>> the 3rd edition), in order to learn modern AI theory. They have
>> discontinued the 3rd edition but I succeeded in ordering a copy
>> anyway. I have read the 1st and the 2nd editions, but I have not yet
>> received by mail the 3rd edition.
>>
>> But I only got the PAIP book to learn Common LISP, not in order to
>> study modern AI. This is why I'm discussing this in the
>> new:comp.lang.LISP newsgroup.
>>
>> Any good modern LISP textbooks out there?
>>
>> Can anyone point to me any other good modern textbooks on AI than the
>> 3rd edition of the Russell-Norvig book? (Which is reputable.)
>
> If we said it is the last AI book written using Lisp, would that make
> it worth reading? There's nothing newer in AI! :-)
>

Yes I see that the book indeed is very, very good. Thank you for
correcting me.

kind regards, A. J. Y.

AI practitioners do it with resolution.
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