What is AI, really?
The word "AI" gets used for nine different things. We sort out which is which, so the rest of the series makes sense.
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The video library
Short videos we make ourselves, each one taking a single AI idea and explaining it with everyday examples. This is the part of Ctrl+Care meant to stand in for a course you'd otherwise have to pay for.
Under ten minutes
One idea, start to finish, in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. Nothing is split across a twelve-part series.
Everyday examples
We explain a recommendation engine with a music playlist, not a matrix. If we can't explain it with something you've touched, we rewrite it.
Paired with a guide
Every video has a written version, so you can watch it, read it, or do both if the first pass didn't stick.
The series
AI, one idea at a time
Our first series covers the questions people ask us most. Episodes publish in order, and each one goes up here and on Instagram the same day.
How machines learn
Training, guessing and getting corrected: the whole idea behind machine learning, demonstrated without a single equation.
In production
Why chatbots make things up
Hallucination, explained. What a language model is doing when it invents a fact, and how to catch it doing it.
Planned
How bias gets in
Where unfairness enters an AI system, using a hiring example you can follow all the way through.
Planned
What AI knows about you
A walk through what these systems collect, where it goes, and which privacy settings are worth your time.
Planned
Asking AI better questions
Practical prompting, without the guru nonsense. Small changes that reliably get you a more useful answer.
Planned
Nothing in that category yet. Try another filter, or tell us what to cover.
Where this stands
The videos are in production
We're two high schoolers filming and editing these between classes, so they're arriving one at a time rather than all at once. Everything above is the real plan, and we'd rather publish the roadmap than an empty page.
Each episode appears here and on our Instagram the day it's finished. Follow along if you'd like to know when.
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