Useful links
Datasets
Here is a list of websites with datasets relevant to class concepts, enhancing your skills and intuition in data analysis.
Small-to-medium datasets, very student-friendly
Larger datasets
- OpenML, integrates directly with scikit-learn
- PMLB (Penn Machine Learning Benchmarks)
Competition(s)
- Kaggle Datasets
- Kaggle, a platform owned by Google, serves as an online community tailored for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. It facilitates participation in data science competitions, collaboration on various projects, and provides access to diverse datasets. Additionally, users can build models using its web-based tools.
Jobs
- At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race, Ars Technica, Aug 1, 2025.
- Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job, The Verge, by Jay Peters, Apr 7, 2025.
- Canada’s AI Ecosystem: A Brief Overview of In-Demand Skills and Trends, by ICTC, April 1, 2025.
- AI software engineers make $100,000 more than their colleagues. Quartz. Updated May 23, 2024.
- Canada leads the world in AI talent concentration. Deloitte Press Release. September 23, 2023.
- Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth. World Economic Forum, October 26, 2020.
- Talent and workforce effects in the age of AI. Deloitte Insights, March 3, 2020.
Podcasts
AI for Good
- Responsible AI, a Canadian AI event
- AI for Good
Ethics
- ‘We have to stop it taking over’ - the past, present and future of AI with Geoffrey Hinton, Royal Institution, 2025-08-26.
- AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity?, BBC World Service, 2025-08-01
- What Happens When Robots Don’t Need Us Anymore?, Bloomberg, 2024-11-11
- Stop Autonomous Weapons (2017) Slaughterbots, 2025-03-06
- Slaughterbots - if human: kill()
- BBC AI Decoded - Stephanie Hare interview Yoshua Bengio
Hype
- 12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 in IEEE Spectrum
- 15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024 in IEEE Spectrum
- It’s Here: The 2024 Gartner AI Hype Cycle (video)
- ChatGPT passes the famous ‘Turing test’ - suggesting the AI bot has intelligence equivalent to a human, scientists claim in Daily Mail, 2024-06-21.
- AI’s Turing Test Moment GPT-4 advances beyond Turing test to mark new threshold in AI language mastery. Psychology Today, 2024-05-17.
- The most recent version of ChatGPT passes a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative. Standford, School of Humanities and Sciences. 2024-02-22.
- AI: great expectations by Rodney A. Brooks, in Manufacturing Engineeinrg, March 1988, p. 148.
- AI and the Popular Press by Melanie Mitchell, in Popular Computing, March 1985, p. 23.
Popularization
- The Thinking Game (2024)
- The Age of A.I. An 8 parts YouTube Originals, 2019-12-18
- “The Thinking Machine” (1961) - MIT Centennial Film
Science
Professional societies
Conferences
Journals
Fun
- Adapted from: Mitchell, M. (2025). Artificial intelligence learns to reason. Science, 387(6740):eadw5211.
- Adapted from: Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’
- Adapted from: Gary Marcus’s post on X 2024-02-08:
GOODY-2, the most responsible AI model, and its model card.