From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   On Oct 10, 2:25 pm, TefJlives  wrote:   
   > I am a mathematician, but I recently have developed a bit of an   
   > interest in A.I. and robotics. The only problem is that I don't like   
   > to spend too much time in front of a computer. I am wondering if   
   > someone could suggest some pure mathematics problems and fields that   
   > are hot in the A.I. community right now, or give links, or whatever.   
      
   Try Bayesian inference for various kinds of models.  Dirichlet   
   processes are hot right now.   
      
   The Berkeley crowd are doing some very nice variational methods for   
   this.  Some of these models don't have nice easy Gibbs samplers,   
   particularly the infinite hidden Markov model systems.   
      
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