The Fundamental Questions of the AI Revolution
How we might avoid unreasoned hype and hate equally, by understanding reality
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AI & Machine Learning
Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, software engineering, and the fundamental questions about the future of intelligent systems
∞ Learning Iterations
3 Research Papers
? AGI Timeline
Technical Writing
Learning Resources
🎓 Foundational Courses
- Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Course - Classic introduction to ML fundamentals
- Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning - Hands-on approach to deep learning
- DeepLearning.AI Specialization - Comprehensive deep learning curriculum
- CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks - Stanford's computer vision course
📚 Essential Reading
- Deep Learning by Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville - The definitive textbook
- The Elements of Statistical Learning - Mathematical foundations
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Bishop's comprehensive guide
- Probabilistic Machine Learning - Modern Bayesian approach
🛠️ Tools & Frameworks
- Python Ecosystem: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib
- Deep Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
- MLOps: MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC
- Cloud Platforms: AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud AI, Azure ML
- Development: Jupyter, Google Colab, Kaggle Kernels
🔬 Research & Papers
- arXiv.org - Latest research papers
- Papers With Code - Research with implementations
- Distill - Clear explanations of ML concepts
- OpenAI Research - Cutting-edge AI research
💼 Industry Applications
- Developer Tools: Code completion, bug detection, test generation
- DevOps: Monitoring, log analysis, automated deployment
- Security: Threat detection, vulnerability scanning
- Product: Recommendation systems, personalization, A/B testing
🤔 Critical Thinking
- AI Alignment Forum - Discussions on AI safety
- Future of Life Institute - AI policy and ethics
- Anthropic Research - AI safety research
- Philosophy: Understanding consciousness, intelligence, and the hard problems
Fundamental Research Papers
The most influential papers that shaped the field of AI and machine learning, from the foundational work of the 1940s to the latest breakthroughs. Each paper represents a critical milestone in our understanding of computation, learning, and intelligence.
A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
Introduced the first mathematical model of artificial neurons, laying the foundation for all neural network research.
On Computable Numbers
Defined the Turing machine and established the theoretical foundations of computation and what can be algorithmically solved.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Proposed the famous Turing Test and raised fundamental questions about machine intelligence and consciousness.
The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model
Introduced the perceptron algorithm, the first trainable neural network and precursor to modern deep learning.
Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors
Popularized backpropagation, the algorithm that makes training deep neural networks practical and efficient.
Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Back-Propagation Network
Demonstrated practical deep learning on real-world data, leading to modern computer vision applications.
A Neural Probabilistic Language Model
Introduced neural language modeling, paving the way for modern NLP and transformer architectures.
ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs
AlexNet sparked the deep learning revolution by dramatically improving computer vision performance.
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Introduced attention mechanisms, a crucial component of modern transformers and language models.
Generative Adversarial Networks
Introduced GANs, revolutionizing generative modeling and creating new possibilities for synthetic data generation.
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
ResNets solved the vanishing gradient problem, enabling training of very deep networks with skip connections.
Attention Is All You Need
The Transformer architecture revolutionized NLP and became the foundation for GPT, BERT, and ChatGPT.
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers
Demonstrated the power of pre-training and fine-tuning, establishing a new paradigm in NLP.
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Revealed predictable scaling relationships, guiding the development of increasingly large language models.
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
GPT-3 demonstrated emergent abilities in large language models, showing few-shot learning capabilities.
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language
CLIP bridged vision and language, enabling zero-shot image classification and multimodal AI systems.
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words
Vision Transformers showed that transformers could replace CNNs, unifying architectures across modalities.
Training Language Models to Follow Instructions
Introduced RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), making AI systems more helpful and aligned.
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
Demonstrated continued scaling benefits and emergent reasoning abilities in very large language models.
GPT-4 Technical Report
Showcased multimodal capabilities and advanced reasoning, representing the current frontier of large language models.
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Revolutionary reasoning model achieving o1-level performance using pure reinforcement learning, demonstrating cost-efficient training methods.
Introducing GPT-5
OpenAI's most advanced model with state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, and multimodal understanding.
gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
OpenAI's first open-weight models since GPT-2, offering advanced reasoning capabilities under Apache 2.0 license.
SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Extended image segmentation to video understanding, enabling real-time object tracking and identification across temporal sequences.
Data Shapley in One Training Run
Breakthrough method for measuring training data contributions with minimal computational overhead, revolutionizing data valuation.
Key Areas of Focus
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Practical AI Engineering
Building production AI systems that integrate seamlessly with existing developer workflows. Focus on cost optimization, monitoring, and user experience rather than just model performance.
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Fundamental Questions
Exploring the deep philosophical and technical questions around consciousness, intelligence, and the possibility of artificial general intelligence. Maintaining intellectual humility about what we don't know.
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Developer Productivity
Leveraging AI to enhance rather than replace human capabilities in software development. Custom tooling, intelligent automation, and workflow optimization.
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Responsible Development
Understanding the implications of AI systems, from bias and fairness to security and privacy. Building systems that are transparent, accountable, and beneficial.
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