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2017-03-18 · 375 points · 91 comments · 17 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 5Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

    Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

    Peter Norvig

    5 here · 15 all-time · #440 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 65 ratings on Amazon
  2. 4Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

    Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

    Christopher Bishop

    4 here · 15 all-time · #428 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 801 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3

    Deep Learning

    Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

    3 here · 47 all-time · #94 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 2,395 ratings on Amazon
  4. 3Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

    Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

    Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

    3 here · 29 all-time · #195 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 664 ratings on Amazon
  5. 3Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

    3 here · 13 all-time · #505 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 641 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    2 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2

    The Elements of Statistical Learning

    Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman

    2 here · 30 all-time · #191 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,362 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2Superintelligence

    Superintelligence

    Nick Bostrom

    2 here · 18 all-time · #352 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 4,884 ratings on Amazon
  9. 2Society of Mind

    Society of Mind

    Marvin Minsky

    2 here · 10 all-time · #673 overall

  10. 2Programming Game AI By Example

    Programming Game AI By Example

    Mat Buckland

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2417 overall

  11. 2Python Machine Learning

    Python Machine Learning

    Sebastian Raschka

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2578 overall

  12. 1

    The Diamond Age

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 64 all-time · #58 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,358 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1The Master Algorithm

    The Master Algorithm

    Pedro Domingos

    1 here · 15 all-time · #432 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 1,752 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

    Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

    Strogatz

    1 here · 14 all-time · #471 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 518 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1Game Programming Patterns

    Game Programming Patterns

    Robert Nystrom

    1 here · 11 all-time · #577 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,556 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1The Art of Prolog

    The Art of Prolog

    Leon S. Sterling, Ehud Y. Shapiro

    1 here · 7 all-time · #923 overall

  17. 1The Second Machine Age

    The Second Machine Age

    Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1880 overall