How AI Works

For the heavily time-constrained

Do you ever wake up at night, slightly disoriented, breathless, wondering how artificial neural nets are able to optimise weights without encountering discontinutities?

Do you ever stare at your boss’s mouth while it’s moving but you can’t hear a word they are saying because you realise the words we use are just an artibrary token system that doesn’t make much sense until we use our little monkey mouths to make sounds.

Well, regardless here are some enjoyable videos that nicely explain the underlying mathematical concepts and intuition behind common AI models like neural nets and LLM’s.

Now you too can be an AI expert without the interminable tedium of doing a mathematics or computer science degree.

If you want some intuition behind the ‘atomic’ building blocks of AI

This is a cute video that build the intuition behind neural nets and a little bit on underlying maths, but still mercifully short.

If you like a little math and code

This is a old-ish series on hand-rolling a neural net program in python, which is cool, but assumes a fair bit of basic maths knowledge. But bonus points for the episodes also being short.

If you are super keen and have a spare 3 hours

This is a slog, but it’s very well explained by a real expert, in very accessible language.

Enjoy.

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