Ask HN: AI Reading List
In the thread about John Carmack presentation, somebody mentioned the reading list he got from Ilya which were crucial to understand what matters and the current state of the knowledge (at the time).
After some googling, it seems like this list is plausible, although not confirmed: https://github.com/dzyim/ilya-sutskever-recommended-reading?tab=readme-ov-file
What would an actualized list look today ?
I'm asking since I'm taking a similar direction to Carmack (with maybe 1% of his talent and skills, but hey it's all about the journey !) in that I don't intend to work on improvement existing models, which I also believe are a road to nowhere, but rather understand things from the ground up, and maybe figure out 'something different' at the end.
Kevin Murphy's book, particularly volume 2, is really well organized and summarizes the state of the art: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html
It's a really good entry point to current ML, written by an expert who has been in the field of generative models before they incorporated deep features.
I think a good approximation to getting a good current optimal list would be finding a syllabus online for a recent course offering in your AI area of interest. Most lists like that would combine some hands-on work with readings.