Links

A list of useful links on artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and on becoming a master.

Artificial Intelligence

Articles

• The Great A.I. Awakening
• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
• Artificial Intelligence - The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
• Superintelligence - The Idea That Eats Smart People
• The Future of AI - What Do You Think?
• An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
• Lessons from My First Two Years of AI Research
• The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
• The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far away.

Websites

• Distill
• The Gradient
• Towards Data Science
• Reddit: r/agi

Resources

• Deep Learning Textbook
• Reinforcement Learning Textbook
• David Silver’s Reinforcement Learning Course
• YouTube: Lex Fridman - Artificial Intelligence Podcast
• YouTube: Welch Labs - Neural Networks Demystified
• YouTube: 3Blue1Brown - Neural networks
• Coursera: Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning Course
• AlphaGo Movie
• Artificial General Intelligence - A gentle introduction
• AGI Curriculum
• A Guide to MIRI’s Research

Neuroscience

Articles

• How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
• The empty brain
• Doing science backwards
• Neural plasticity: don’t fall for the hype
• 10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain
• The real problem

Websites

• Numenta
• NeuroBanter
• Neurdiness
• Neuro-patch
• The Learning Scientists
• Romain Brette
• Medium: The Spike
• Nature Outlook: The brain
• Reddit: r/neuroscience

Resources

• Neuronal Dynamics Textbook
• Open Mind
• MITCogNet
• Society for Neuroscience - Classic Papers
• Neuroscience of Consciousness - Standout Research
• Foundational Neuroscience Questions
• Brain Inspired Podcast
• YouTube: Janet Casagrand
• YouTube: SciShow Psych
• Reddit: r/cogsci - Reading List

Neuromorphic Computing

• Intel Information Page
• Exploring Neuromorphic Computing for AI: Why Spikes?
• The Future of Neuromorphic Computing - Presented by Intel
• On a Path to Artificial Brains

Others

General Resources

• Personal Website
• Personal YouTube AI Playlist
• Quanta Magazine
• The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
• Philosophy Reading List
• The Lesson You Never Got Taught in School: How to Learn!
• Paul’s Online Calculus Notes
• Nick Bostrom’s Homepage
• Nicky Case
• Effectiviology
• James Clear Articles
• THE SLOW SCIENCE MANIFESTO

On becoming an master

• Life Without A Destiny
• The 5 Stages of an Electronic Music Producer (and How to Progress Effectively Through Them)
• How to Make Electronic Music
• The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
• 80,000 Hours
• Warren Buffett’s 5-Step Process for Prioritizing True Success (and Why Most People Never Do It)
• The Making of an Expert
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary
• How to be a genius
• How to Become the Best in the World at Something

Academic Research

• Research Debt
• Academic precarity and the single PI lab model