Crash Course
Training Neural Networks
Today we’re going to talk about how neurons in a neural network learn by getting their math adjusted, called backpropagation, and how we can optimize networks by finding the best combinations of weights to minimize error. Then we’ll send...
Crash Course
Artificial Intelligence & Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy
Today Hank explores artificial intelligence, including weak AI and strong AI, and the various ways that thinkers have tried to define strong AI including the Turing Test, and John Searle’s response to the Turing Test, the Chinese Room....
TED Talks
TED: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives | Tom Gruber
How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us...
TED Talks
TED: What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill
Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will MacAskill provides a framework for answering this question based on the...
SciShow
Can AI Evolve?
AI can do some pretty amazing things, but if we want it to learn on its own, we're going to have to teach AI how to evolve.
TED Talks
TED: How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how...
SciShow
Alan Turing: Great Minds
Hank introduces us to that great mathematical mind, Alan Turing, who, as an openly gay man in the early 20th century faced brutal prejudice that eventually led to his suicide, despite being a genius war hero who helped the Allies defeat...
TED Talks
TED: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get...
SciShow
The Amazing Humanoid Diving Robot
Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.
SciShow
Can This AI Hear Alzheimer’s on the Phone?
It can be tough to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, but a team of researchers believes that artificial intelligence might be able to do it just by listening.
SciShow
The Most Advanced Robots in the World
The most advanced robots in the world might not be exactly what you're expecting. But they're shaping humanity's future.
TED Talks
TED: New ways to understand life in a pandemic | Aaron Maniam
Poet and policymaker Aaron Maniam describes how the language we use to explain COVID-19 shapes the way we think about it -- whether it's as a "war," a "journey" or, as he suggests, an "ecology." He encourages us to explore a range of...
SciShow
5 Sci-Fi Futures We Actually Have to Worry About
5 Sci-Fi Futures We Actually Have to Worry About
SciShow
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Realistic Twitter Bot?
What are the methods twitter bots use to fool us, and what are some of the challenges in doing so?
SciShow
AI vs. Human: The Greatest Go Tournament Ever
Google's 'AlphaGo' and the world's top ranked Go player go head-to-head in a battle to decide whether or not an AI can be programmed to win a game as complicated as Go.
TED Talks
TED: How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham
James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CeRN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and accessible talk about how science happens, Beacham takes us...
Crash Course
Make an AI Sound Like a YouTuber (LAB)
Let’s try to help John Green Bot sound a bit more like the real John Green using Natural Language Processing. Today, we're going to code a program that takes a one word prompt and then completes the sentence that sounds like something...
SciShow
Why Multitask While Driving Isn't a Good Idea
Driving can be dangerous, especially if you’re trying to juggle a variety of distractions while barreling down a busy highway. So scientists are looking into ways to keep us focused on the task at hand, even if you’re traveling in an...
SciShow
The First Robot Swarm, and Evolution's Misfit
Hank shares the nuts-and-bolts of the world’s first robot swarm, and explains what the creepy, cute and extinct animal known as Hallucigenia can teach us about evolution.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human? - Alex Gendler
What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence. But British computer scientist Alan Turing decided to disregard all these questions...
TED Talks
Shyam Sankar: The rise of human-computer cooperation
Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question of finding the right...
TED Talks
Torsten Reil: Animate characters by evolving them
Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.
SciShow
DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers
It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.