Generative AI

Articles: Expository

• Large Language Models, Explained with a Minimum of Math and Jargon *
• by Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott; Understanding AI, July 27, 2023
• AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. Neural Networks
• IBM Data and AI Team; July 6, 2023
• Tokenization in large language models, explained
• by Sean Trott; The Counterfactual, May 2, 2024
• How computers got shockingly good at recognizing images
• by Timothy B. Lee; Ars Technica, Dec. 18, 2018

Articles: Miscellaneous

• The AI Mirage
• by Ian Bogost; The Atlantic, Jul. 14, 2025
• Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
• Dwarkesh Patel, Jun. 2, 2025
• Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
• by Mark Zuckerberg, Jul. 23, 2024
• What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II)
• O’Reilly, May 31, 2024
• What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)
• O’Reilly, May 28, 2024
• When Colorless Green DNNs Sleep Furiously in an Unexplainable Fantasy
• by Walid Saba; Communications of the ACM, May 16, 2024
• Generative Baseline Hell and the Regulation of Machine-Learning Foundation Models
• Lawfare, May 8, 2024
• How Generative AI Fits into Knowledge Work
• by Mari Sako; Communications of the ACM, Mar. 6, 2024
• How to Use AI to Improve Your Public Speaking
• by Bob Ewing; Talking Big Ideas, Mar. 10, 2023

Chatbots

• ChatGPT | OpenAI
• Claude | Anthropic
• Google Gemini
• Microsoft Copilot

Courses

• Best Generative AI Courses Online with Certificates
• Coursera
• Generative AI for Software Developers Specialization | IBM
• Coursera (3 courses)
• IBM AI Developer Professional Certificate
• Coursera (10 courses)

Learning Resources

• Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
• The Counterfactual
• Sean Trott | Substack
• Generative artificial intelligence
• Wikipedia
• Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus | Substack
• One Useful Thing
• Ethan Mollick | Substack
• Understanding AI
• Timothy B. Lee