Web Directory Searches For Artificial Intelligence

Today I had a look at some online directories for artificial intelligence resources and information, here are the results:

• dmoz – hand sorted directory containing over 1400 links.
• Google directory – The A.I. section from the Google directory, with over 1600 links.
• Librarian’s Internet Index – “Websites you can trust”, has a massive 8 links, although each one is selected, described and organised by a team of librarians, which is bragable.
• Yahoo directory – The A.I.section from the Yahoo directory, with 173 links.
• All the internet – More artificial intelligence links.
• TekGuide – “The Internet’s IT directory.” Seems to have a good selection of links.
• internet-web-directory – over 400 links.

I also came across this Artificial Intellegence on the Internet PDF, and as a result, AIResources, both created by Marcus P. Zillman, and both containing loads of useful resources.

Hopefully you will find this resource pool useful. I guess it might function as a fairly good list of web directories too. As usual, if there is anything that you think I should add to the list, let me know in the comments.

Free Stanford Engineering Courses

“For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world.” It just so happens that three of the courses currently available are on areas of artificial intelligence:

• Introduction to Robotics
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning

There is lots of other good stuff as well, for example I have been watching a great course on Linear Dynamical Systems. Each of the courses is a set of 20 75 minute lectures (that’s a total of 25 hours per course), so there is a LOT of material here. All of the lectures I have watched so far have been well presented, and expertly explained, so this really is a great source of information. Check out the main page here.

The Devious Logic of Metaphors

Yesterday I watched another interesting Microsoft Research Lecture:

The Devious Logic of Metaphors by Leroy Searle

The talk covers the problems of metaphors, both philosophical and literary, as well as discussing the diffuculties metaphors pose in the field of artificial intelligence. Leroy Searle uses several poems as sources of examples over the course of the talk, and ends with some analysis of The Tempest. As before with Microsoft Reaserch Lectures, I had to watch this talk in an internet explorer tab in order for it to work.

The Next Generation of Neural Networks

I recently watched ‘The Next Generation of Neural Networks‘, a Google Tech Talk given by Geoffrey Hinton in late 2007, and although it is nearly 2 years old, which is fairly old in this kind of field, I still found it extremely interesting and exciting.

I then went and checked out Geoffrey Hinton’s homepage, which has lots of interesting content, and I found this image, which shows 2500 English words layed out in 2D space in accordance with some machine learned word feature vectors, (if you are wondering what ‘word feature vectors’ are, they are discussed in the above video).This image is a pretty cool example of some of the neural netwrok techniques, for example, look at the clustering of countries, months and names at the top (in three distinct patches), nice!