Answering Your Questions About AI
Explaining ChatGPT, AI art, how to start learning, and much more.
This week I took questions about AI from my subscribers on YouTube. Today I’m answering them! You can find the topics you’re interested in at the timestamps below:
0:00 Intro
0:20 How does ChatGPT work?
2:46 How do AI art generators work?
5:25 Is AI just fancy statistics?
7:13 Using AI in creative work.
9:50 How did I become an AI researcher?
11:40 What's my educational background and research experience?
11:59 How to start learning AI?
13:23 Lightning round: CUDA?
13:38 Lightning round: Is AI sentient?
14:20 Lightning round: paid AI services?
Resources
Math4ML - a single PDF containing all the math behind AI. If you want to deeply understand AI, learn the math in Math4ML.
Berkeley's Intro to AI Course - the first AI-specific course I took at Berkeley and a great survey of the field.
Thanks again for a great video, Maxime! The sections on whether AI is just "fancy statistics", and how to use AI in creative work, resonated with me the most.
I'd like a more in-depth video on how to start learning AI, maybe considering what background the person already has. For instance, should you learn AI if you hate math? (Couldn't be me, I love math, but some people don't!)
And as constructive criticism: the sections on how AI generators work and how ChatGPT works ended up being too complex for a layperson, in my opinion. Maybe there's a way to simplify this content, like describing matrices as tables (which most people would immediately understand).
My suggestion: take a look at the videos by Eddie Woo, he's an excellent math teacher that breaks down important concepts to make them more interesting. His channel: https://www.youtube.com/@misterwootube
(I posted this on YouTube, but I'll leave it here as well.)
Way to go. Well done.