What do you read to keep up with AI?

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

- https://garymarcus.substack.com/

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

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.

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).

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

Ethan Mollick

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