Recommended Books.
I'm not a big reader, but every once and awhile I run across a book I like. Listed here are the books I've found so far.
 
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On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkings & Sandra Blakeslee Jeff Hawkings, founder of Palm, has always been interested in the brain. In this book, he presents his theory of how the brain works and how we can implement his theory, "Hierarchical Temporal Memory" (HTM), into computers to make truly intelligent machines. So often we hear those writing artificial intelligence (AI) software say that it is just a matter of building a big enough super-computer before we have intelligent machines. But, Hawkings views the brain as a prediction engine of sorts rather than a computational powerhouse. He argues that this is a major reason why we haven't seen major advancements in the AI arena. I highly recommend reading this book if you're interested in building intelligent machines or just intrigued by how our brains work. |
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Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran Programming Collective Intelligence is the go to source if you are looking for an introduction in building and implementing recommendation systems, search engines, optimization programs, document filtering, decision trees, evolving intelligence, or any of several other interesting applications of collective intelligence. This book is packed full of example code written in Python. Examples include but are not limited to creating a recommendation system for del.icio.us using the del.icio.us API, using word vectors to find topics within blogs, writing a crawler and indexer for a search engine, creating software to find efficient routes, and creating a spam filter. |