Hello Everyone,
I’m so glad you joined us today. Let’s get to the reading lounge. It’s Sunday, September 24th, 2023.
Take a sip of that coffee ☕ and read along with me. I want to inspire you with new writes at the intersection of 🤓 artificial intelligence and the 🔮 future. These are things that I think about, and maybe you do too.
During the summer of 2023, I took the liberty of doing a survey of A.I. Newsletters on the web.
That’s how this occasional Sunday series was born. “Good Reads in AI”
To that end, on some Sundays I will feature some Newsletters from the list in a bit more detail. This is a casual series for easy browsing. It’s supposed to simply ✨ spark your interest, thus exposing you to new thinkers, writers, visions of the future and their work.
Format
Two polls related to A.I.
Three “featured” Newsletters
Their 3 best pieces (preferably posts that are free)
Want to support the channel?
⛰️ Scan the Epic 🙌 List
📖 Good Reads in A.I.
For this series, we will be going in random order through our big list.
1. SemiAnalysis
Category: Semiconductor reports, analysis, expert insights.
What is it?
The Semianalysis Newsletter is the most popular boutique semiconductor research and consulting firm specializing in the semiconductor supply chain from chemical inputs to fabs to design IP and strategy on Substack. Their wild success in 2023 at a time of unprecedented interest in their niche means they are now the 2nd top paid Newsletter in Technology.
Dylan’s deep dive analyses and reports have been making the News and breaking fascinating stories in Tech from Nvidia, to Google, to China.
What to read?
Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors
GPT-4 Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, MoE
How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly In Machine Learning Is Breaking – OpenAI Triton And PyTorch 2.0
China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed
2. The Upheaval
Category: Wide ranging, technological disruption, China, geopolitical Op-Eds.
What is it?
The Upheaval is what I like to fondly call a Machine Rebellion Newsletter. At a time of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, few Newsletters are so fascinating on the side of China analysis, U.S. geopolitical dynamics and technological nihilism as this work, all of which evade adequates description somehow. You sort of have to experience it for yourself:
The framing of our times is immense and constructed in a singular bottleneck that is increasingly becoming a global problem: “Differences and tensions between the United States and China have never been greater. The whole world is dividing itself between the blocs of these two opposing superpowers.”
The Upheaval, a wide-ranging newsletter exploring the nature, causes, and consequences of the chaos increasingly engulfing our lives as the world is forcibly reconfigured by at least three simultaneous revolutions: a geopolitical revolution driven by the rise of China; an ideological revolution consuming the Western world; and a technological revolution exacerbating both of the former.
To say that The Upheaval is a fan favorite, would be an understatement.
What to read?
3. Understanding AI
Category: Tech journalism, tech policy, AI economics, expert level overviews.
What is it?
Timothy’s balanced optimism about A.I. is grounded in a strong journalistic background. He’s been affiliated with the Washington Post, Vox.com, Ars Technica and Slate. Besides freelancing, the author also runs other Newsletters. His coverage of self-driving cars and other notable developments in innovation in tech are also worth a read. As such, Understanding AI is valuable supplementary reading for a more general audience on a weekly basis.
The language is highly accessible, approachable and the topic choice is educational and stimulating.
With a Masters degree in Computer Science and a strong fundamental understanding of technology stacks, this is a great introduction to the contemporary world of artificial intelligence. I like the balance of policy, tech and big picture macro pieces all very clear and easy to read. Follow the Newsletter on Twitter. https://twitter.com/binarybits
What to read?
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
Why I’m not worried about AI causing mass unemployment
Don’t exclude AI-generated art from copyright
This concludes our lounging with the A.I. Newsletters, and our cup ☕ of coffee is nearly done.
We can never have enough educational and entertaining content around A.I. on Substack.
🌊 Surveying the Ocean – Around the Horn 📯
Knowledge is deep and vast, and there’s a coming wave of disruption.
As a reader you might find something to read in the long list, which I recommend to 🏷️ bookmark.
This has been issue #3 of this occasional sometimes Sunday series.
We now have over 400 Newsletters featured in the long-list:
See you next time!
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