Women who shaped artificial intelligence
From Ada Lovelace to Fei-Fei Li, Daphne Koller, Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru: the researchers and leaders whose work on data, algorithms and ethics shaped modern AI.
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Knowledge & Learning — Page 3
Guides, explainers, courses and references to understand and use AI.
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How to get the most out of an AI conference
Practical advice for attending AI research and industry conferences: planning sessions, reading posters, networking, presenting your work and following up afterwards.
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How to start a career in AI: a realistic roadmap
A step-by-step roadmap into AI careers: foundations, courses, projects, portfolios, open source, networking and job applications — for students and career changers.
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How to keep up with AI news without drowning
A sustainable system for following AI: choosing a few trusted sources, filtering hype, reading primary sources and building a weekly routine that fits your goals.
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AI podcasts and newsletters worth your time: a curated guide
A curated guide to long-running AI podcasts and newsletters for different audiences — researchers, builders, business readers and beginners — and how to pick yours.
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The best YouTube channels and video courses to learn AI
From 3Blue1Brown's visual neural network series to Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero and university lectures: the best free videos for learning AI, by level.
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Essential AI talks and lectures everyone should watch
A curated list of influential AI talks and lectures — on how language models work, the history of deep learning, AI safety and the future of work — and what each teaches.
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Famous AI competitions that changed the field
From the DARPA Grand Challenge and the Netflix Prize to ImageNet, CASP and the ARC Prize: competitions that accelerated AI progress, and what made them so influential.
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How to compete in Kaggle competitions and AI hackathons
A practical guide to machine learning competitions and hackathons: choosing events, baselines, validation, teamwork, presenting projects and learning from winners.
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Prompt of the day: the "critique, then improve" prompt
A reusable prompt that makes AI review your draft against clear criteria before rewriting it — with the template, examples for emails, essays and code, and variations.
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10 everyday tasks AI does well — and 5 it still gets wrong
A practical list of everyday tasks where AI assistants genuinely save time, from drafting to explaining, and five common tasks where they still fail and need checking.
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How to judge AI predictions and forecasts
AI predictions range from "AGI next year" to "it's all hype". How to evaluate forecasts, what forecasting research teaches, and the warning signs of unreliable claims.
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