Over the last few months, I’ve noticed something quite incredible - machine learning techniques slowly (but surely) creeping into mainstream conferences. It all started with the Machine Learning Made Easy with Perl presentation at OSCON 2007 by Lino Ramirez. Then the amazing Programming Collective Intelligence book was published. And now straight from RailsConf 2007 comes Making Rails More (Artificially) Intelligent which is quite filled with Ruby code richness. The presentation covers Bayesian Classifiers and Genetic Algorithms. A GA was used to “optimize web page revenues from advertisements” as an example.

Its interesting to note that all three examples that I quote use a dynamic language - Perl, Python and Ruby.

….now where are those AI in Web 2.0 style jobs in Brisbane, Australia? Where?????