Substacks recommended by The Gradient

Recommended by The Gradient

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in humanistic research and teaching.

Professor Breen is an incredibly thoughtful historian, whose interests and work should be of great interest for anyone interested in the past and future of AI. I highly recommend following his Substack and checking out his other work!

- The Gradient

Artificial Intelligence Made Simple

By Devansh

Covering the implications of important ideas in AI from all angles- technical, social, and economic. Read in over 180 countries. Sister Publication to Tech Made Simple

Great articles explaining important AI concepts and algorithms

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AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By Melanie Mitchell

I write about interesting new developments in AI.

Ahead of AI

By Sebastian Raschka

Ahead AI specializes in Machine Learning & AI research and is read by tens of thousands of researchers and practitioners who want to stay ahead in the ever-evolving field.

Sebastian is an incredible educator and always has invaluable insights--do keep up with his work!

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Davis Summarizes Papers

By Davis Blalock

I go through all the machine learning arXiv submissions each week and summarize 10 to 20 of my favorites. Free forever and read by thousands of ML researchers and practitioners.

Excellent weekly summaries of interesting new papers

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sincerely, in jest

By daniel bashir

if I write enough words, maybe things will start to make sense

often not AI content 🙂

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Untangled with Charley Johnson

A newsletter and podcast about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it.

I really appreciate the concept and perspective of Charley's publication--lots of gems here!

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Last Week in AI

Weekly text and audio summaries of the most interesting AI news, as well as editorials commenting on recent events

Awesome weekly text and audio round ups of AI coverage outside of research

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Gwern.net Newsletter

By Gwern Branwen (gwern.net)

Latest gwern.net updates, interesting links, and reviews

Reboot

Essays, events, and community about reimagining techno-optimism for a better collective future.

Really wonderful essays, interviews, and book reviews done by a wonderful group of people :) Love their vision of the role of technologists in society and of techno-optimism.

- The Gradient

The AI Ethics Brief

By Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI)

Democratizing AI Ethics Literacy.

Great way to keep up with all things related to AI ethics

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Contraptions

By Venkatesh Rao

Janky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.

You should be reading this if you're not already

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ChinAI Newsletter

By Jeffrey Ding

Jeff Ding's weekly translations of writings from Chinese thinkers on China's AI landscape

Unique insights about AI in China with original translations of non-english documents

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