Ask HN: Best "AI" learning resources for SWEs?

"Deep Learning" by Bengio, Karpathy's videos on GPT from scratch, 3b1b's videos going over the math and fundamentals should give you a nice grip over the concepts.

After that I feel you would be ready to delve into newer papers and be able to understand what's going on and stay "relevant" as you said.

I compiled some - see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195527

If you managed to read that book, read the updated version: https://www.bishopbook.com