PickVidsBest AI & data (other) Videos
The 29 AI & data (other) videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 5 intermediate, 22 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Machine Learning Street Talk, Google TechTalks, Louie V.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned — Kenneth Stanley
A long Machine Learning Street Talk interview with Kenneth Stanley, creator of NEAT and novelty search, about his book on why greatness cannot be planned.
Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)
Soren Johnson, a lead designer and AI programmer on Civilization games, discusses game AI design, including whether AI should cheat, behave like a human or be fun rather than strong.
Colonel JD AI Codec Conversation MGS2 HD
The final codec conversation from Metal Gear Solid 2, in which the AI 'Colonel' explains that the Patriots filter out junk information and curate truth for humanity.
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213
Part 1 of Smarter Every Day's three-part series on manipulating the YouTube algorithm.
Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser's TED talk argues that personalized web services trap users in filter bubbles, limiting exposure to challenging information.
Hound Internal Demo
SoundHound's CEO demos Hound, a voice assistant, handling fast compound natural language queries with context and detailed criteria.
Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
Psychologist Robert Epstein presents a Stanford EE380 colloquium on how internet algorithms such as search rankings can manipulate opinions, purchases and votes at massive scale.
Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman interviews Douglas Lenat, founder of Cyc, a decades-long project to encode common-sense knowledge and reasoning for AI.
My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
Veritasium's Derek Muller explains his hypothesis that YouTube's algorithm, not viewer preference, drives views, and that click-through rate has become the key metric.
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google
John Searle's Talk at Google on consciousness and artificial intelligence, hosted by Google's Singularity Network.
The Lighthill Debate (1973) - part 1 of 6
First part of a six-part recording of the 1973 Lighthill debate on AI, where Sir James Lighthill's critical report on AI research was contested by figures including McCarthy and Michie.
AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway
Physicist and YouTuber Angela Collier argues in this hour-long video that AI as commonly described does not really exist.
Human Computation
A 2006 Google TechTalk in which Luis von Ahn introduces human computation, using people's effort to solve problems like image recognition that computers cannot yet handle.
The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"
The full 1973 BBC Lighthill debate on artificial intelligence, featuring James Lighthill, Donald Michie, Richard Gregory and John McCarthy.
Google is killing authentic websites & I made it worse 😔 Here's why I RUINED my company website
Louis Rossmann explains how Google delisted his repair business site for almost a year, and how having AI rewrite his authentic content into corporate-style text finally restored his rankings.
God Mode (Person of Interest)(2 x 22)
A short clip from Person of Interest season 2 where Root and John gain full access to The Machine and its resources.
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
An excerpt of Richard Feynman's 1985 lecture Q&A about whether machines can think.
First NetHack bot ascension
The BotHack NetHack bot wins the game for the first time with no cheats or human intervention, in a run lasting about 3.5 hours.
HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
A three-minute excerpt from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the HAL 9000 computer refuses to open the pod bay doors.
Automaton 2000 Micro - Dodging Siege Tanks
A StarCraft 2 custom-map demo where a bot controls 100 zerglings against 20 sieged tanks and dodges the splash damage, leaving 19 survivors.
What Google Search Is Like Now
A Ryan George comedy sketch about the experience of using Google search in 2022, where results are full of ads, spam and Reddit and Amazon detours.
Cloaking
Matt Cutts of Google explains what cloaking is: serving different content to search engine crawlers than to users.
Charlie Rose Eric Schmidt
A short Charlie Rose interview clip of Eric Schmidt discussing Google's direction for search.
youtube's search function is atrocious now
A short comedic complaint by ProZD about YouTube search failing to surface his own video even when searching its exact title.