Stanford ArtificiaI Intelligence MOOC

I’m proud to have completed the first ever offering of the MOOC in Artificial Intelligence, run by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig through Stanford University.

It was intriguing, challenging, and ultimately fun to get a first bit of working knowledge of things like spam filters, robot localization, and computer vision.

I’ve written a little Bayes filter based on the model introduced in that course.  I’ve hooked it up to my IRC client to alert me about the most interesting messages.  As they say though, the hardest part is the training and data collection - it’s hard and time-consuming to come up with enough good data to form a workable model.

The main things I’ve gained from the course is an appreciation of the kinds of problems AI can solve, as well as an idea of what tool to use in a given situation.