What is the "best" programming language for Artificial Intelligent Systems
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This is a follow up from the post "Is C# suitable for artificial intelligent systems". I really enjoyed the discussion. But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be? C, C++, LISP, PROLOG, C#, VB ... ?:confused::confused::confused:
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Kobby Kan wrote:
But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be?
Like I said before, what are the requirements? How much ram can we expect our customers to have and not adversely affect sales? What OSs will we support? What is our threading approach (green vs native)? Blah blah blah..... it goes on forever. AI is pretty independent of the platform (.net, STL, Python, Ruby,....). I've implemented moderately complex AIs in .net and Python (via stackless and greenlets) and, good old C/C++. As far as how well the AI performed it was really due to the implementation. If you know your algorithms and structures it all comes down to a your "measures of goodness". By this I mean that you really have to ask yourself and your customers if applicable what matters most and determine the context of the AI. Does it matter if your ai is a little slow? Do you care what percentage of the RAM consumed by your app is gobbled up by the AI? Where are you deploying your AI? Is it part of a larger application or does it stand alone? Finally, does the language even matter if you are trying to learn about AI? Seriously, a good programmer can learn the basics of a platform in a matter of days or weeks. What really makes the really good ones stand out in my view is their knowledge of their domain.
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I wonder if DNA was written in C#
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I wonder if DNA was written in C#
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
I wonder if DNA was written in C#
No, gestation of a complex animal would take years, not months.
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This is a follow up from the post "Is C# suitable for artificial intelligent systems". I really enjoyed the discussion. But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be? C, C++, LISP, PROLOG, C#, VB ... ?:confused::confused::confused:
You may need to break it down further in scope. There are many different AI subject areas, many of which could use a particular language better. I think have read somewhere that lisp makes good for language processing while I would hard pressed to choose anything but C (or C++) when invoking massive neural networks, and well PROLOG just works pretty well for those little robots.
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VB. Just to prove that it can be done. :-D
VB could do but would the app work?
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This is a follow up from the post "Is C# suitable for artificial intelligent systems". I really enjoyed the discussion. But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be? C, C++, LISP, PROLOG, C#, VB ... ?:confused::confused::confused:
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This is a follow up from the post "Is C# suitable for artificial intelligent systems". I really enjoyed the discussion. But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be? C, C++, LISP, PROLOG, C#, VB ... ?:confused::confused::confused:
Kobby Kan wrote:
But then if you had to choose a programming language for a 'real world' artificial intelligent system development, what would it be?
None of them. Artificial intelligence is never going to happen on a computer regardless of the language used to program it. Even if it could be done it wouldnt matter what the language is, its all machine code by the time it runs, the script you play with is just a representaiton of that. The fact is though that we dont even understand the nature of inteligence, of our selves. Until we do, we are never going to reproduce it.
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
I wonder if DNA was written in C#
No, gestation of a complex animal would take years, not months.
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Are you then suggesting that it is coded in C/Assembler? :P
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Why not ? Do you think C# could do it ?
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: No offence, but i meant "serious", "practical" AI. VB could do it, but maybe not efficiently.
Efficiently maybe, but still slowly!
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Are you then suggesting that it is coded in C/Assembler? :P
Greetings. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you “The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet.” - Michael A. Jackson Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Assembler obviously, with no documentation, once it was written no one else can figure out what it does outside of the smallest of pieces.
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