It is a race, but both racers seem to be walking. A. Study mathematics, especially mathematical logic. The more you learn about science in general the better. For the biological approaches to AI, study psychology and the physiology of the nervous system. It is also a good idea to learn one basic machine language.
Jobs are likely to depend on knowing the languages currently in fashion.
A. Artificial Intelligence by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall is the most commonly used textbbook in 1997. The general views expressed there do not exactly correspond to those of this essay. A New Synthesis by Nils Nilsson, Morgan Kaufman, may be easier to read. Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence , Artificial Intelligence , and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence are four of the main journals publishing AI research papers. I have not yet found everything that should be in this paragraph.