I know it's not popular on Hacker News, but actually AI research has little to do with Lisp/the language of the moment or the Q&A website of the moment. It's to

I know it's not popular on Hacker News, but actually AI research has little to do with Lisp/the language of the moment or the Q&A website of the moment. It's to do with algorithms and core datasets. Watson being one example that's not just based on shuffling around email and setting alarms on your phone.[1] Andrew Ng's work at Stanford is another example of something that's feeding into really changing the world, not the HN stereotype of two ivy grads doing a ruby on rails app which gets an edge in a market dominated by a few lumbering megacorporations. Not that both aren't important, but there is a heavy bias on HN toward the latter, and new languages, rather than core research and algorithms. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)