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Though it is an academic book, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.

The first chapter in the book provides a detailed analysis of how other disciplines contribute to the idea of AI - from Philosophy to Psychology, Biology to Computer Science. Makes for an interesting read, even for a non-tech reader.




This.

If you're also looking for a course that goes alongside the book, I highly recommend UC Berkley's CS188 (you can find it at http://ai.berkeley.edu).

The lecturer Pieter Abbeel does such a good job explaining stuff and the programming exercises are really neat.

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The course is also quite easy to follow without buying the book. I love the exercises in which you are programming an intelligent agent to move through a maze. It reminded me of how we learned programming in university using Karel The Robot.

This alongside Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course was my first exposure to the field. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

I can also recommend Sebastian Thrun's Artificial Ingelligence for Robotics course: https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...


I wouldn't exaggerate the "detailed analysis" here. For example, I found the philosophical parts quite weak and superficial.




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