Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Peter Norvig
15 people recommended it in 8 threads, 2007–2024.
6 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
PAIP offers a completely different approach to solving problems, also using lisp. This approach is much closer to constructing a language to model a problem and then solving the problem symbolically using the language created.
But, of all the books I worked through, this is the one I remember just having tons of fun because the examples are so cool and the code so… clear.
While some will argue it is dated, I think it presents many timeless ideas that will get in vogue soon with little tweaks to their inference schemes.
AIMA provides better introduction for wider area of subjects but PAIP is one of most elegant and timeless books for both programming and old school AI.
Just to inform others, PAIP is not just an AI book, it is also a book on learning Common Lisp from scratch, and uses AI for the domain examples.
One of the best books on AI and Programming ever.
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