Ask HN: Python or JavaScript for Learning Artificial Intelligence?

It's no contest: you want to learn Python.

Other commenters (or their links) haven't mentioned Theano, which is excellent for deep learning, so I'll contribute that to the discussion.

I would say Python.

I am no expert in neither Python nor JS. But, the AI community really seems to be obsessed with Python and moreover many specific libraries [1] are available in Python that concentrates on AI alone.

On the contrary, AI in JS is mainly being used in games and like.

[1] - https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonForArtificialIntelligence

This shouldn't even be a question. Python has, just off the top of my head:

1. Numpy

2. Scipy

3. Pandas

4. Orange

5. Gensim

6. Scikit-Learn

7. NLTK

What does JavaScript have that even comes close?

I would go for Python. It provides more flexible approach for coding and the AI community seems to be revolving more around Python.

Python by far in my opinion.

Definitely python. I think it is the best language to learn AI, it is simple and has so much great libraries and learning resources!