[craigching]

I have Norvig's book, I'm not sure I'd recommend that as an introduction ;) Awesome book though!

[plinkplonk]

AIMA is about as introductory as these texts get (and still be valuable). It in an undergrad textbook after all.

[craigching]

I guess my point is that it's such a broad overview of all topics that fall under artificial intelligence that you don't get much of a good introduction to applying machine learning. But point taken, you're right, it is an introductory text.