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Newsletters
These are the newsletters I’m subscribed to to stay on top of what is going on in AI and regularly learn.
One Useful Thing - Research based views on the implications of AI by AI researcher Prof. Ethan Mollick at Wharton - https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Latent Space - AI engineering focused - https://www.latent.space/
ThursdAI - AI news, with a technical slant - https://thursdai.news/
Ben’s Bites - AI news and summaries - https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/
Import AI - Summaries of AI research (written by one of the founders of Anthropic) - https://importai.substack.com/
Exponential View by Azeem Azhar - Impacts of AI - https://www.exponentialview.co/
Inside AI - AI business briefings - https://inside.com/ai
AI Snake Oil - Realistic view of what AI can do - https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Prompts Daily - AI products and tools - https://www.neatprompts.com/
Stratechery - Tech strategy newsletter, not AI only, but they have great takes on AI - https://stratechery.com/
Last Week in AI - AI news - https://lastweekin.ai
O’Reilly Next Economy and Radar Trends to Watch - Emerging technologies and trends curated by O’Reilly Media - https://www.oreilly.com/emails/newsletters/
Podcasts
Great podcasts to regularly immerse yourself in what AI technology is out there, how it works, how it’s being used, corporate strategy to use it to solve customer problems, and the impact of the technology.
TWIML AI Podcast - Technical AI podcast - https://twimlai.com/podcast/twimlai/
Last Week in AI - AI news - https://lastweekin.ai/s/podcast
The AI Podcast by NVIDIA - Podcast on AI applications from marketing to climate modeling - https://blogs.nvidia.com/ai-podcast/
The Neuron: AI Explained - Short news bites on AI in an easy to understand format - https://www.theneuron.ai/podcast
Data & Society - Explores the societal impact of emerging data technologies - https://listen.datasociety.net/
Stratechery - Tech strategy podcast, not AI only, but they have great takes on AI - https://stratechery.com/
Sharp Tech - How tech works and how it’s impacting the world - https://sharptech.fm/member
Course Platforms
I’m not going to tell you specifically what classes you should take, because I don’t know your professional goals. But, I am going to share my favorite course platforms to find AI courses.
Maven - Great if you learn well with live courses, and want to learn with professionals currently at well respected companies like OpenAI, Google, etc - https://maven.com
DeepLearning.ai - Really up-to-date AI courses for all levels and for different levels of time commitment - https://www.deeplearning.ai/
O’Reilly - Several great live trainings on AI and other current tech subjects, including my course, Jumpstart Your AI Career - https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/features.html
Coursera - Good online courses that are pretty affordable - https://www.coursera.org/
Udacity - https://www.udacity.com/
Developer Roadmaps and Resources in Github
Learning roadmaps for developers in Github.
Machine Learning Roadmap - Connects many important concepts in machine learning, how to learn them, and what tools to use to perform them - https://github.com/mrdbourke/machine-learning-roadmap
Machine Learning & LLM Open Book - Repository with lessons from someone who has spent a good amount of time trying to train LLMs - https://github.com/stas00/ml-engineering
AI Product Management Courses & Resources
There are a lot of AI product management courses popping up. Here are courses by my two favorite AI product leaders that I have taken courses from. There are other great courses, but I haven’t taken classes with those instructors personally.
AI Product Leader by Polly Allen - Great courses that will teach you how to build with AI and transition into being an AI PM, including a great capstone project in the 8 week course - https://www.aicareerboost.com/
Advanced AI Product Management by Dr. Marily Nika - Course for PMs interested in trasnitioning into an AI PM career with several expert guest speakers - https://maven.com/marily-nika/advanced-ai-product-management
AI Product Leader Podcast - Podcast with interviews from real AI product leaders, hosted by Polly Allen - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxeFBGlbmpuoZnOzfboWZEeV_pqNjQVV&si=XUHDhmAv7bckl6XS
Marily Nika’s AI Product Newsletter - Dr. Marily Nika has a great substack full of a wealth of information: https://substack.com/@marilynika
Dose of AI List - Mix of leaders building AI and with AI - https://x.com/i/lists/1798016427745571174
Don’t see your favorite AI resource here? Tell me about it! I love learning and sharing great learning resources with others.