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Upvoted to encouraging people to get hands-on. Learning is good. Trying to go for a higehr level of understanding in whatever you do is a core rationality skill.
Sadly you stopped there though. For the sake of discussion, I've heard Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a good book on the subject. Hopefully a discussion could start here; perhaps there's something flawed, or perhaps the book is outdated. If anyone here, and I'm looking at you, the AI, AGI, FAI, IDK and other acronym-users whom I can't keep up with can provide some more directions for the potentially aspiring AI researchers lurking around, it would be very appreciated.
Well, there's this ...
[ETA: link is to MIRI's research guide, some traditional AI but more mathy/philosophical. Proceed with caution.]
What does that have to do with artificial intelligence?
... quite a lot, no?
Those links are specific to MIRI's rather idiosyncratic philosophy/math oriented research agenda. If you actually read all those books, you're pretty much committing to knowing very little about practical AI and machine learning, simply by virtue of time opportunity cost.
There's only two items on that list that are artificial intelligence related. One is an introductory survey textbook, and the other is really about probabilistic reasoning with some examples geared towards AI. The rest has about as much to do with AI as, say, the C++ programming manual.
Your definition what counts as "AI related" seems to be narrower than mine, but fine. I trust readers can judge whether the linked resources are of interest.