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by kingkongjaffa 508 days ago
> Usage of the phrase "first principles" has sprawled into many different things since (I think) Musk first mentioned it as a way to learn

In pop culture in 2010+ sure, but he was essentially parroting Feynman IIRC.

"How to learn AI from first principles?"

Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t... and eventually you'll get to AI, exercise left to the reader ;)