Artificial Intelligence is going to change our world.
There are many hypotheses on how, but no one really knows.
In the meantime, here are some resources that helped me better understand what’s happening and what may be possible. I hope this helps you take agency in your own change and helps you guide your connections and colleagues into the uncertain future.
💡Personal Projects – While you think about applying AI in work scenarios, there may be controls or other reasons that you are slowed down. A project that serves a personal need gives you freedom and can illustrate AI’s value in a very tangible way.
Follow Daniel Englebretson and take his course The Rule of 100 Personal Development with Generative AI
Check out my own personal AI Projects: AI – YouTube
📚Books – Understand the big picture implications of AI
The Coming Wave – How it could all happen very quickly
Atlas of AI – AI’s inconvenient truth
Unmasking AI – Discrimination and bias in AI
Who Wrote This? – How outsourcing our writing to AI might change what makes us human.
The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support – How to operationalize AI into a specific real-world scenario.
📃Papers – you don’t need to understand the formulas to understand the larger ideas
Textbooks Are All You Need – The difference between small and large language models
Machines of Loving Grace – What if it all goes right.
Short Podcasts – more than a surface level discussion on emerging developments
Hard Fork – OpenAI’s Reasoning Machine – Chain of thought reasoning
Cal Newport – Defusing AI Panic – How control layers controlled by humans can reign in AI
Long Podcasts – deep details and ideas
Lex Fridman – Anthropic Folks – too many topics to summarize
Lex Friedman – Eliezer Yudkowsky – why it will all go wrong and we should destroy the GPUs
I hope you enjoy. Let me know any other resources you find valuable.