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I’d posit we don’t understand AIML enough to know their foundations with much certainty. Take for example the discovery of emergent zero-shot properties in the latest LLMs. My recommendation to a beginner would be to grok gradient descent, matrix multiplication, and the universal approximation theorem, then get on to engineering like the rest of us. You can’t go wrong with Jeremy Howard’s FastAI course and his “Deep Learning for Coders.”