Getting Started — and Continuing — to Learn About AI and Prompting
I sometimes get asked how to best learn about AI and prompting, and how to keep up as new models and applications are released.
My best advice is, of course, to get in touch with Magnus and talk AI with me!
But if you prefer to learn on your own, here are my top recommendations right now.
How I use LLMs — Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is a legend in the AI field. He served as the head of AI at Tesla and co-founded OpenAI. He’s also an excellent educator, having published a large number of videos on YouTube.
In the video “How I use LLMs” he walks through many of the most popular AI tools (such as ChatGPT and Claude) in a very hands-on way, explaining how he personally uses and benefits from them. The video is long (over two hours), but helpfully divided into shorter segments (10–20 minutes) that are easy to jump to if you’re interested in a specific area.
No special technical background is needed to follow along, unlike many of his other videos (such as the four-hour “Let’s reproduce GPT-2 (124M)” which walks you step by step through building an LLM).
If you’re on Twitter/X, I recommend following Andrej Karpathy there.
Other great videos
“Boost Your Productivity with AI” is a 40-minute video from Google that focuses on using their Google Gemini.
OpenAI Academy has many videos on how to best use ChatGPT for personal use, for education, and in the workplace.
Podcasts
I often listen to podcasts while driving, on the train, or while working out. Here’s a list of the podcasts getting heavy rotation in my headphones right now:
“The AI Daily Brief” is a daily podcast. Short episodes (20 minutes) focused on AI news.
“The Cognitive Revolution” comes out once a week. Episodes are long (often well over an hour) and explore many areas of AI: research, development, geopolitics, and economics.
“En AI till kaffet” is a Swedish podcast (which I appeared on a while back).
Prompt tools
If you want concrete suggestions for prompting directly in ChatGPT, I recommend a Google Chrome extension called promptmatic. It lets you save prompts you’re happy with, or browse prompts shared by other users.
And the rest
All of this is, of course, just a small selection of the material available online. You’ll no doubt find plenty of other great resources by searching on your own — or why not by asking whichever AI assistant you happen to have at hand.