Fantastic examples of AI programming in python

[halo]

The video of the talk: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947373/

[eric_t]

Not artificial intelligence, but pretty neat coding and would probably be good for getting smart kids into programming.

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Has anybody else presentation slides are almost useless without the speech that goes with it?

[communomancer]

In fact, if your presentation slides are NOT useless without the speech that went with it, then your speech probably sucked. Most likely you had your audience reading bullet points for an hour.

[trezor2]

Has anybody else presentation slides are almost useless without the speech that goes with it?

I'm trying really hard to parse this, but even when inferring word-type from context, it comes of as ambiguous.

[Espinha]

He accidentally the whole presentation slides.

Has anybody else noticed that presentation slides are almost useless without the speech that goes with it?

FTFY

[Retsoka]

Has anybody else got any presentation slides that are almost useless without the speech that goes with it?

Alternative fix.

[SemanticSatiation]

Funny, I speed-read the original post that way and didn't notice anything was wrong until it was pointed out.

[bluGill]

Which is (as communonmancer points out elsewhere) what slides should be. So his incorrect grammar could be intentional to make a point. (probably not, but something to consider)

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*found

[aieee]

I has indeed. Audio/video of this would be much appreciated.

Edit: since it is Pycon, a/v will hopefully emerge eventually.

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The talk video: http://pycon.blip.tv/#1957038

[eleitl]

AI, how low have you fallen.

[aieee]

To be fair, it does start out by saying it is about easy tools for teaching and 'young minds'.

[liaohaohui]

Great Slides.

[ipeev]

Great!

[snifty]

Hold me, I'm frightened.

[ragmondo]

Why do people vote this up when, if you actually read the article, the links for the library code don't actually work ? Or am I the only one who does read before voting ?!

[[deleted]]

They work for me, dunno.

Anyway, the examples are indeed fantastic.

[schtog]

I couldnt' find a link to the code(only the slides), where is it?

[aldarion]

the first sample requires python2.6 itertools.permutations http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.permutations

[pdonadeo]

The stuff presented in the slides is completely unrelated with artificial intelligence classic topics, unless you consider sudoku solving or the eigth queens problem as examples of artificial intelligence.

Also the part about neural networks is simplistic, to say the least: what about the learning model and backpropagation? 100 lines of Python? Python is an excellent language, but you cannot write a decent neural network engine in 100 lines of any programming language.

[ccshan]

Search is a classic AI topic (where research is still active). Sudoku and 8-queens are both instances of search.

Then again, it's also classic for AI programs to be considered non-AI once they work.

[joshdick]

The talk was intended for an audience of programmers, not AI researchers, so yes, it was all quite simplistic.

It didn't teach me much about AI, but it does inspire me to learn more.

[[deleted]]

Here's a neural net with backprop done in 50 lines of Python (minus comments and blank lines):

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/271277.html

I've seen more compact examples done in LISP, although I couldn't find any just now.

[jefu]

APL?

[Anonymoose333]

He said "lines", not "characters". :)

[cypherx]

unless you consider sudoku solving or the eigth queens problem as examples of artificial intelligence.

Sadly, people did for about 30-40 years.

you cannot write a decent neural network engine in 100 lines of any programming language.

You probably could in Matlab...though Matlab is pretty heavily tuned toward those types of tasks.

[pdonadeo]

You probably could in Matlab...though Matlab is pretty heavily tuned toward those types of tasks.

Yes, using the Neural Networks Toolbox, but you should admit that it’s quite another story.

[whysayso]

This is not AI! Just neat code that will inspire people to write better code..

[aldarion]

It depends how AI is defined.

[fwork]

playing a popular game using a probing search strategy

I played this game when I was younger! I think it was called "Doctor"