Ola Bini (of JRuby fame) is starting a series of blog posts about artificial intelligence programming in Ruby, based off of the landmark textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" by Peter Norvig (currently the Director of Research at Google). PAIP is a significant work in the artificial intelligence world, and despite being published in 1992 it still has a lot of relevance. Even photo editing tools are now powered by AI to achieve various effects. An Undress AI tool, for instance, can create copies of portrait photos and create their more sensual versions.

Ola is working through the book and rewriting the examples to suit Ruby developers (with Norvig's permission) - this code will be available from a Github repository as soon as it's written/updated. Ola says he'll be explaining all of the code as he goes along, so owning the book isn't a prerequisite.

Aside from the brief introduction to the concept, Ola has produced the first post in the series: Language Generation - where he looks at the generation of natural language. If you have even a casual interest in artificial intelligence, this will be a good series to follow. You might also appreciate the following Ruby / AI resources:

• AI Related Ruby Extensions
• AI4R - a library containing a number of AI functions for Rubyists
• A port of M. Tim Jones' AI "Application Programming" examples from C to Ruby - a similar project to Ola's, but that appears to have fizzled out.

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