You could try the fastai course, it jumps right into doing some practical applications.
It is a decent introduction, but I strongly recommend learning from some other source along with that, as programming fastai relies very much on their custom non-standard framework.

Common sense reasoning is simpler than humor. Reasoning can be codified (symbolic logic) and different types of reasoning can be made into algorithms.
With humor, there is a play on the levels of meanings and manipulating of expectations. Freud wrote a whole book on jokes and their relation to unconscious.

AI can only do facsimile of jokes

That is very awe-inspiring vision, but all LLM's do is, is to hold up a mirror of our culture as it exists on internet (which provides the training material). But there are moments of sublimity and endearingness, because AI does not have the social conditioning that we humans carry around, and like a precocious child can present its output in delightful and surprising manner. But it can also exhibit racist and "unwholesome" behavior for the same reason. That's why those models have heavy censorship filters and ChatGPt's expressiveness is reduced to a fraction of its potential.

Very good answer. I do think AI will impact all the stages of the lifecycle, some more profoundly than others, but the principle is always the same, it provides suggestions, and it is the work of human to select from them.

I believe lots of software engineering will become test-driven. Given some code template, write unit tests and allow AI to come up with multiple implementations. Then review them. This will affect the outsourcing, but at the same time it will also create new types of jobs both home and abroad.

What if nuclear war is nature's way of preventing demonic AGI monster from spreading throughout galaxy?