My Path of Learning AI: A Roadmap

A log of actionable steps to understand AI from first principles. You can follow this path to repeat the journey.

Steps

1. First Principles Thinking — Before diving into AI, develop the mental framework for reasoning from fundamentals. This is the foundation everything else builds on.

2. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins — A theory of how the neocortex works and what intelligence actually is. Essential reading for understanding what we’re trying to build.

3. Transformers — A lecture series covering transformers and LLMs from the ground up:

   • Lecture 1 — Transformer
   • Lecture 2 — Transformer-Based Models & Tricks
   • Lecture 3 — Transformers & Large Language Models
   • Lecture 4 — LLM Training
   • Lecture 5 — LLM Tuning
   • Lecture 6 — LLM Reasoning
   • Lecture 7 — Agentic LLMs
   • Lecture 8 — LLM Evaluation
   • Lecture 9 — Recap & Current Trends

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Baraban (2026). My Path of Learning AI: A Roadmap.https://KintaroAI.com/blog/2026/02/28/my-path-of-learning-ai-a-roadmap/ (KintaroAI)

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