Something to keep in mind if you're looking into studying AI seriously is that it's really half a dozen barely-related fields, that have all retained the group

Something to keep in mind if you're looking into studying AI seriously is that it's really half a dozen barely-related fields, that have all retained the group name "AI" solely because it sounds cool. Machine learning specialists use a whole different set of ideas than robotic control specialists, for instance. The logical inference engines or expert systems that used to be the bread-and-butter of AI departments are now flippantly referred to as "GOFAI" ("Good Old-Fashioned AI") to distinguish them from the shiny new approaches that get students hired into Google. I think one could frame the question like this: What do you want to learn; logic, statistics, and/or cognitive science? For each there is a branch (or several branches) of "AI" that revolve around it, and have only a limited amount to do with the others.