Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs penguinAI

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more.

penguinAI makes AI character chats feel fun, lively, and engaging with playful personalities, emotional variety, and free private conversations.

About Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more. These courses, books, and code-heavy pieces do not currently have a ListenDock audio episode. When legendary game programmer John Carmack decided to move into AI, he asked OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever what he should read. Ilya handed him a list of around thirty works and said that learning them would cover 90% of what matters in modern deep learning.

About penguinAI

penguinAI makes AI character chats feel fun, lively, and engaging with playful personalities, emotional variety, and free private conversations. Cloudflare is doing maintenance on the servers for Pages, which is what powers penguinAI. Characters can be curious, excited, awkward, sarcastic, thoughtful, nervous, amused, or dramatic instead of replying the same way every time. Of the 3 raters per comparison, 2 were blind human evaluators and 1 was an LLM judge. Human-rated scores have a margin of error ±1.5 points.