Here is a curated list of links designed to offer an introduction to AI in 2024 for a general audience. If you’re interested in AI for business, then you check out the syllabus for Human and Machine Intelligence, which is a course designed for MBA students at Kellogg School of Management.

How Generative AI Works ¶

• Visual Introduction to Transformers from Financial Times (2024)
• More Technical Visual Introduction to Transformers from 3Blue1Brown (2024)
• How to build GPT-2 from Scratch from Andrej Karpthy
• Explaining the basics of RAG from Ben Clavie

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) ¶

• Introduction to Super Intelligence Part 1 and Part 2 from Wait but Why (2015)
• The Slipperiness of AGI from Science (2024)

AI and the Future of Work ¶

• AI Could Actually Help Rebuild the Middle Class by David Autor (2024)

AI and Consciousness ¶

• Framework for Evaluating Consciousness in Large Language Models from David Chalmers (2023)

AI Art ¶

• Blueprints for Intelligence from Philipp Schmitt (2022)
• AI Art Circa 2017-2020 from Luba Elliott (2020)

AI Ted Talks ¶

• How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe by Demis Hassabis (2024)
• How AI will step off the screen and into the real world by Daniela Rus (2024)
• Why AI is incredibly smart and shockingly stupid by Yejin Choi (2024)