Learning path
Start from zero
No background assumed. The shortest path from 'I keep hearing about AI' to being genuinely conversant: what these systems are, what they do to work, and how to read the news about them.
The path
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✓[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
One hour that gives you the mental model everything else builds on.
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✓Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
Ten minutes on what AI actually does to skilled work — including when it makes you worse.
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✓The AI water issue is fake
A case study in reading alarming AI statistics: insist on denominators.
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✓Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
The economics of 'will there be jobs', from the optimist's side, cleanly argued.