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Ask HN: What do you read to keep up with AI?

9 points by profsummergig 2y ago

Is there an HN type website to keep up with all the developments, new jargon, etc.?

raythanwho 2y ago
rss feeds and substack
- cratermoon 2y ago
  that's no more helpful in answering the question that saying "the internet"
cratermoon 2y ago
- https://garymarcus.substack.com/ https://garymarcus.substack.com/ - https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute weekly Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Terr_ 2y ago
https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ , since I'm a skeptic avoiding the "OMG the singular is near" hype.
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
  Yeah he had carved out a niche in applying common sense to AI angle.
lunarcave 2y ago
Some axioms I use: - Stay away from all the newsletters who pump the latest news. There's a ton of them there. They just mostly use AI to summarise the arxiv papers and discord channels. - Look for blogs from people building in AI, builders who are commenting on AI, but not "selling AI". - If you need keep up with the latest, subscribe to the blogs / newsletters of the big companies. Not a lot of them there - Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepmind, Groq, Cerebrus etc.
BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago
Ethan Mollick
nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
Gave up with that. Non-AI is way more fun, as a programmer anyway. For me.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Be prepared to be left behind.
  - nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
    I didn't mean I dont use AI. I just don't want to train models or do prompt engineering. I would be happy with setting up AI infra ... maybe.
    - scarface_74 2y ago
      And you will still be left behind. I’ve been in this field for close to 30 years. I’ve only survived as an IC by jumping on whatever the tech du jour was. I started my career programming on mainframes in C and Fortran in the 1990s and have been on every bandwagon since then. My latest is specializing in AWS + app dev consulting. Right now I’m leading a Kubernetes + AI project. And last year I spent most of the year embedding an LLM into hosted AWS Connect call centers.
scarface_74 2y ago
Not specific to AI, but for the business side of tech and AI, I subscribe to the Stratechery bundle. Ben Thompson is not a developer. But he understands technology deeply including processor technology, manufacturing, Asian culture and how it affects technology (he’s an American living in Taiwan).

Is there an HN type website to keep up with all the developments, new jargon, etc.?

raythanwho 2y ago

rss feeds and substack

cratermoon 2y ago
that's no more helpful in answering the question that saying "the internet"

cratermoon 2y ago

- https://garymarcus.substack.com/ https://garymarcus.substack.com/ - https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute weekly Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Terr_ 2y ago

https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ , since I'm a skeptic avoiding the "OMG the singular is near" hype.

nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
Yeah he had carved out a niche in applying common sense to AI angle.

lunarcave 2y ago

Some axioms I use: - Stay away from all the newsletters who pump the latest news. There's a ton of them there. They just mostly use AI to summarise the arxiv papers and discord channels. - Look for blogs from people building in AI, builders who are commenting on AI, but not "selling AI". - If you need keep up with the latest, subscribe to the blogs / newsletters of the big companies. Not a lot of them there - Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepmind, Groq, Cerebrus etc.

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 2y ago

Ethan Mollick

nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago

Gave up with that. Non-AI is way more fun, as a programmer anyway. For me.

scarface_74 2y ago
Be prepared to be left behind.
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
  I didn't mean I dont use AI. I just don't want to train models or do prompt engineering. I would be happy with setting up AI infra ... maybe.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    And you will still be left behind. I’ve been in this field for close to 30 years. I’ve only survived as an IC by jumping on whatever the tech du jour was. I started my career programming on mainframes in C and Fortran in the 1990s and have been on every bandwagon since then. My latest is specializing in AWS + app dev consulting. Right now I’m leading a Kubernetes + AI project. And last year I spent most of the year embedding an LLM into hosted AWS Connect call centers.

scarface_74 2y ago

Not specific to AI, but for the business side of tech and AI, I subscribe to the Stratechery bundle. Ben Thompson is not a developer. But he understands technology deeply including processor technology, manufacturing, Asian culture and how it affects technology (he’s an American living in Taiwan).