AI #1: AI Resources

AI is ubiquitous in the news. So much is happening that even experts have a hard time keeping up.  Here I’m sharing the sources I follow for the latest news, interesting debates and technology updates.  

Podcasts

Last Week In AI – founded by a Stanford grad with a PhD in AI.  Hosted by super smart duo, Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris, who share headlines and deeper stories.  

The AI Daily Brief – quick daily hits. Very interesting and informative. 

The Super Data Science Podcast – more focused on the field of data science but also has some great interviews, for instance recently with Andrew Ng of Deepmind.AI and Coursera. Fantastic host Jon Krohn.

Newsletters

Don’t Worry About the Vase by the incredible Ziv Moshowitz, a fascinating and prolific writher. Economist and Magic: The Gathering gaming pro (as in played as a professional).

Top AI Chat Models (LLMs)

ChatGPT – often considered the top chat LLM. Part of OpenAI offerings, with large investments from Microsoft.

Claude – Advanced LLM by Anthropic, a company started by OpenAI alum and focused on safety/alignment. 

Perplexity – A powerful model which places reference links for all of its output, emphasizing sourcing for its LLM responses. 

XAI – Elon Musk’s AI from X.  

Gemini – Google’s frontier model.  

NotebookLM – a unique take on LLMs. You can feed in up to 50 large documents and even YouTube videos and ask questions about the data contained therein. 

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Courses

DeepLearning.AI (Coursera) – deeplearning.ai was founded by Andrew Ng, one of the pioneers in AI and machine learning education. Many of the courses, like the highly-regarded Deep Learning Specialization, are hosted on Coursera. 

University of Texas – McCombs School of Business – Post-Grad Program in AI and Machine Learning – the seven month course I am taking through UT. I’m about five months in.  Highly recommend. I’m thoroughly enjoying the learning journey in this course.