Re: What is a good ai forum for hobbyists?

On Mar 28, 8:07 pm, casey <jgkjca...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 29, 10:53 am, BerlinBrown <berlin.br...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am not a research or graduate student but am a programmer
that is always interested in AI.  What are some good forums
for just throwing out ideas.

Comp.ai doesn't seem like that place.

What do you find missing on comp.ai?

What is your level of programming skill?

What aspects of AI are you interested in?

And what does your "throwing out ideas" amount to?

This group likes to make high level statements about how
you should be doing AI or how the brain works but there
is nothing practical in it for a programmer. That is, the
ideas thrown out aren't in the form of programs or a form
that can be translated into a program.

Programming involves hours of hard work and you can't just
throw out an idea you have to be very specific otherwise
of course the program can't be written. This is perhaps
why the ai site below didn't get much on going input.

http://www.generation5.org/

JC

"What do you find missing on comp.ai?"

Nothing, but I think my posts will be deleted because I am not at a
research level and not writing a paper about AI.

What is your level of programming skill?

Pretty fluent, I am looking at OpenCV for a project of mine.

What aspects of AI are you interested in?

Two main, distinct fields:

1. Text Mining
2. Computer Vision/Feature Detection (for use with my hobby robot,
which I will probably using opencv for).

"And what does your "throwing out ideas" amount to? "

I don't know, asking general questions, what are some fast/simple
algorithms for edge detection; can you combine different transform
and still perform real-time processing. Questions that a scientist
may laugh at, but a hobbyist may be more interested in.
.

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