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> forget PAIP and look at Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

I've read and enjoyed that book 10+ years ago. Haven't been following AI/ML since then. Is it still a "modern approach"?

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On the one hand, the fourth edition includes an introduction to deep learning that's as up-to-date as it's possible for a printed book to be. On the other, it's placed late in the book, and many people these days would skip straight to the neural nets. Up to you. I think it's valuable for condensing an incredible amount of stuff in an accessible unified introductory way.

Right, if your goal is to understand the broad field of artificial intelligence, AIMA is great. If your goal is to understand ML in particular, then there are a bunch of other more applicable books (Deep Learning, Learning From Data, probably a bunch of more recent ones that I don't know because I haven't kept up super recently)

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