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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideal... by cl42 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:12AM (#39014998)
Do you have recommendations on good semi-advanced textbooks for fundamental AI research? I agree with you about this space... I would love to spend more time in it, even if it's just an hour or two per day, but nearly all the content out there is about deep neural networks and transformers.

I also have a sneaking suspicion this is what John Carmack is exploring.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideal... by max_ on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:28PM (#39016761)
The best books I would recommend are;

— The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

— The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

— What Computers Still Can't Do by Hubert L. Dreyfus

— Society of Mind & The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky

— The Feeling Of What Happens by Antonio Damasio

— Language & Mind by Noam Chomsky

— A great mooc is also, the "Learning From Data" Telecourse from Caltech https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideal... by NukedOne on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:48PM (#39023023)
Why do you think these books are interesting?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideal... by max_ on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:07AM (#39024757)
The authors are discussing topics I regard as important that very few people are working on.
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