Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis - Nils J Nilsson

I have read this book called Artificial Intelligence. It is quite boring. While reading the book, I found no interest.

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Hello Dear Friends,

Myself Chaitali and today I am going to share my personal experience regarding the book called " ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A NEW SYNTHESIS BY NILS J NILSSON ", with which I was introduced when I was in the second year of my engineering and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was one of out subjects.

First things first, The look of the book is not so interesting, Only the name in capital bold letters and a simple picture which fails to drag attention of readers, so the first impression is very boring and less stylish and less creative. The size of the book is huge, It feels heavy almost 2 kgs. SO its difficult to carry in your bad for its heavy weight. The quality of the paper and the material used is poor quality. If you are aishwaryasingh23ing 1299 rupees for a book the quality should be good.

Now for first few chapters then book is easy and the details are good regarding the subject. But once you finish first two chapters you cant understand as the descriptions are very short and on practical examples are their. It does not have GAME THEORY, ALGEBRA THEORY, ALU UNIT, GU INTERFACE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and other important chapters. So you cant understand the details of the subject as you don't have ideas about the above mentioned chapters. So this book is not for beginner. First you need to study a book descriptive book where all the matters are well described with practical examples.

The GAME THEORY part is replaced with OPTIMAL MATHEMATICS, which helps us to make decision while in a GAME TREE. the traditional GAME TREE is missing. So the DECISION making process of the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is not described vastly, All the descriptions are short and fail to express . The arithmetic and the logical unit of a computer is not mentioned. So the mathematical part is not present. No theorem for intelligence, No DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS or other CALCULUS is present. The mathematics portions are missing and the details of math are very less which makes it difficult to understand the decision making of calculus.

The theory is good to go, but no practical knowledge is their, so when you are look for coding this book is very much no for all. And if you don't have coding knowledge as a beginner then you cant understand after completing the total book, as you need to know and have the knowledge of the subject from first. The CLASSICAL WATER FALL MODEL of GAME FLOW, THE RAD MODEL OF TIC TACK TOE, DECISION MAKING OF CROSS WORD are missing. which makes it less informative. The example of games are no present. SO you cant understand the GAME TREE and the basic theory of games and how the games for for ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

So for a beginner this book is not a very good choice, I started reading a other books, and once I was done with this subject then the understand this book as there are lots of small chapters are missing, this book is basically for experts. But the practical part is missing and this book fail to make you understand the subject. So don't ready this book if you are a beginner, Try other books like MORRIS MANO, ST ANTHONY's etc. I will give this book one out of ten for the information provided by the chapters and missing chapters are very much important so this book should contain all the missing information regarding better quality of understanding. So don't buy this book. this is not worthy.

Thanking You,

@Chaitali7

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Hai friends, here had given me sleepless nights not to long ago, incidentally his much famed book"Artificial Intelligence" was part and parcel of under grad computer science course, Rest of the chapter were of smiliar tone, only more arcance, this may sound very hard to believe but the fact was the chapters had no such relevance to the questions given in the end and still not any clue as to what those questions meant(meaning in relevance to what was given in the chapter) and the scene was so bad, My own personal opinion about this book, it is nothing short of a re-packaged, re-barcoded born again obtruse mathematico presipico book, compare to this books Artificial Intelligence is a so difficult not easy writing and not easy way of studying, Only One Good thing is every chapter begins with a wonderful quote, and the best quality of writing is not every quote is by another quote english don. so friends learning quotes also its nice one

however but not good and easy story book.

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Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researchers. "Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis" takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of Artificial Intelligence

Costly but Good one

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This book covers all major area of artificial intelligence with simple implementation in different branches and many important subfield are introduced, including machine learning.you can use it as reference book on artificial intelligence.This book clearly written and can be understood if you are computer science student or have aware of compuer science.However there are lack of some chapter like control theory and case study that can integrate all concepts but still you can use it for reference book.

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I'll be damned. There is no other way to put it. This called for a full monty..ashes to ashes and dust to dust included.

I had been scaling the authors section of Mouthshut.com when lo & behold whom do I spot, (at this moment imaginary lightning and thunder is clasped) none other than Mr. Nils J Nilson himself.

This gentleman here had given me sleepless nights not to long ago. Incidentally his much famed book 'Artificial Intelligence' was part and parcel of our under - grad computer science course.

Before I go any further let me lay the groundwork.

Itwas my second last semester, the last being nothing but actual industrial training and project work...piece of cake. So being the last semester which mattered, I knew I had to be extra cautious. One wrong move and chances of the whole year down the 'recycle bin' could very much be the stark reality. MOst of the subjects had me practicing somnambulism in them. No sweat. Except for one or two I knew I could sleep walk through the rest and still manage a decent score.

Two weeks before the exam me and another fellow sit down to swap notes, trade stories and in general have a good time. Just like when coupla mates get together. Only in our case the theme or the agenda of get-together was Artificial Intelligence. We opened the first chapter. Hmmm...nothing much here. Only theory, stuff to learn and then afterwards dutifully unlearn. We flip to the second chapter.

Fairly small chapters, most of them. Now here is where the fun begins,cynically speaking. This was from where all the hocus-pocus began. On the face of it, it did not have much to offer. Atleast not from what we were able to discern. This is what the author had to say. Take a robot. It is in a room with certain obstacles and an algorithm has to be devised for it to comfortable move around without bumping into anything. Throw in some fancy words like genetic environment and collateral mutantism, draw some free flowing diagrams and there you have, a crawling slimy arachanoid called Artificial Intelligence. (The running joke was that since natural intelligence seemed to be in short supple, hence all the trouble to mug up the artificial one.)

Rest of the chapters were of similar tone, only more arcane. This may sound very hard to beleive but the fact was the chapters had no as such relevance to the questions given in the end. You could have brow-beaten your head to eternity and still not have any clue as to what those questions meant.(meaning in relevance to what was given in the chapters). The scene was so bad that had the questions been upside down the reader would have still thought ''jeez why do I feel breezy between my ears''. A classic example of SNAFU. (a WW-2 slang which stood for, Situation Normal All Fcuked Up)

My own personal opinion about this book, it is nothing short of a re-packaged, re-barcoded born again obtruse mathematico presipico book. Moral being if you look at it from mathematical perspective then it's not so difficult.

So we did what anybody in our situation would have done. We got hold of the answer key, royally ignored what the author had to say in his chapters and prayed to the almighty that even if the paper was completely application based atleast passing marks value questions should be from book-end.

Not wanting to go any further from here, folks my humble advice to you all is that even if somebody gifts you this book, beat hell for leather and catch the next ship out of town. Somebody really hates you in this city.

one good thing in the book:

Every chapter begins with a wonderful quote. And the best thing is not everyquote is by another english don. My fav. quote was quoted by an american NFL player. Here is what he had to say,'' When the game is on and you receive a pass, then is not the time to think. It is the time to react. The time to think is when you were practising.''

A very general quote you may say, but why I do I like it. It successfully became my motto for all the competitive exams that I was going to sit for. With only few seconds to answer each question I find this quote very apt.

Trivia:

Most famous AI application : Deep Blue.

Other equally cool AI applied applications: AIBO, ASIMO

AIBO: AI-BOT (as in Artificial Intelligence Robot)

ASIMO: Advance Step in Mobility (something to this effect). By Honda, Japan.

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