I’m off from university (3rd year physics undergrad) for the summer and hence have a lot of free time, and I want to use this to make as much progress as possible towards the goal of getting a job in AI safety technical research. I have found that I don’t really know how to do this.
Some things that I can do:
work through undergrad-level maths and CS textbooks
basic programming (since I do physics, this is at the level required to implement simple numerical methods in MATLAB)
the stuff in Andrew Ng’s machine learning Coursera course
Thus far I’ve worked through the first half of Hutton’s Programming in Haskell on the grounds that functional programming maybe teaches a style of thought that’s useful and opens doors to more theoretical CS stuff.
I’m optimising for something slightly different that purely becoming good at AI safety, in that at the end I’d like to have some legible things to point to or list on a CV or something (or become better-placed to later acquire such legible things).
I’d be interested to hear from people who know more about what would be helpful for this.
I’m off from university (3rd year physics undergrad) for the summer and hence have a lot of free time, and I want to use this to make as much progress as possible towards the goal of getting a job in AI safety technical research. I have found that I don’t really know how to do this.
Some things that I can do:
work through undergrad-level maths and CS textbooks
basic programming (since I do physics, this is at the level required to implement simple numerical methods in MATLAB)
the stuff in Andrew Ng’s machine learning Coursera course
Thus far I’ve worked through the first half of Hutton’s Programming in Haskell on the grounds that functional programming maybe teaches a style of thought that’s useful and opens doors to more theoretical CS stuff.
I’m optimising for something slightly different that purely becoming good at AI safety, in that at the end I’d like to have some legible things to point to or list on a CV or something (or become better-placed to later acquire such legible things).
I’d be interested to hear from people who know more about what would be helpful for this.