Is there a body of literature that one can use to bootstrap yourself into these ideas? I've seen it written up in the popular scientific press a couple of times

Is there a body of literature that one can use to bootstrap yourself into these ideas? I've seen it written up in the popular scientific press a couple of times over the last few months, but I've never found a tutorial or textbook or body of papers accessible to AI researchers or engineers. Pure math papers are often not written to be understandable to dabblers.