The Epic History of Artificial Intelligence

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ABOUT JOHN COOGAN:

I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.

I work mostly in tech-enabled consumer packaged goods, meaning I use software to make the best products possible and then deliver them to the widest possible audience. I'm a big fan of machine learning, python programming, and motion graphics.

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[JohnCooganPlus]

Please ignore all scam comments! Apparently AI can generate incredible images but can't recognize that someone with the name wHaTsApP pRoFiT with my exact profile picture is a scammer lol.

Big thanks to OpenAI for letting me use the DALL-E 2 beta for this. Such a fun project!

[CharlesWeill]

I can't believe an AI made these illustrations. What a time to be alive!

[aaronabuusama]

Love the reference to Two Minute papers! “What a time to be alive”

[zzz_zzzzzzz_zzz_imtired]

Oh my god... I was about to write "Wow how can you afford such nice visuals?" until I heard your ending sentence and remembered the beginning of the video... AI is progressing really fast in the past couple years, wow! Nice reference at 16:39

[henrryfermin]

you are the most underrated youtuber. you will be HUGE one day brother!

[CAPSLOCK_USER]

Loved the visuals on this video! I can totally see a future where content creators use text-to-image models extensively. I kinda prefer this way of illustration of a video essay than the bits from movies one.

[abhiabhi]

"What a time to be alive " that's enough for giving credits😂

[SXB]

Incredibly insight on history overlayed on a 100% digital video. But your narration delivery takes the cake. Storytelling was too good!

[HerleifJarle]

AIs have already evolved. Imagine creating images from a just simple text. I've seen a demo on Bluewillow and it was just amazing to see how far technology has come.

[IvanParadinovic]

Throughout the video I was thinking how were you able to find so many appropriate images. And how is it possible that all of them shared the same production style. Commissioning them from a specific artist would obviously be economically unfeasible for the purpose of a youtube video. Then you really hit me with the twist at the end. Absolutely genius!

[ClayMann]

It's a stunning video, beautifully written. I've followed A.I and robotics all my life waiting for AGI and this video while illustrating beautifully the story also illustrates the compression in time its taking between leaps. Or to put it another way the exponential growth in computing and A.I research compounding onto itself that is keeping it accelerating ever faster. We are now seeing leaps forward in technical ability every month. As the two minute paper guy says, what a time to be alive!

[CharlesWeill]

This video was so good, I had to watch it twice. Trying to solve these problems using deterministic "brute force", like searching the maze, indeed only works for very small problems. Modern AI (machine learning) uses probabilities to non-deterministically explore the search space with the heuristics being applied at the data collection, and data clearing stage, and well as within the choice of the machine Learning algorithm's architecture. It's still "brute-force"-ish, but look at the breakthroughs we get from that!

[massonline]

As usual, you make technology fun. Your channel has no competition. We’re becoming faithful followers.

[dsp]

Nice reference to Two Minute Papers at 16:40!

[Yguy]

Omg this is so good... Some pictures were just gold. As someone who struggles to find stock footage, I see AI generated stock photos as a complete game changer

[bonaventureokoli]

Love the reference to Two minutes papers, 'What A Time To Be Alive'.

[lackushi]

“Breaking through the fog of “ was a section from a Harvard paper on the history of AI that I used to reference GPT3 that wild to hear… WE definitely need to rethink copywriting

[aktugbirinci]

I used to tell my daughter that she should prepare herself to be a creative person in the future cause that is one area AI will not be touching that much... Well when i first saw Dall-e about a month ago i realised that I couldnt be more wrong! I was on the waiting list to try it out but John bet me to it:)))

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"What a Time to be Alive!" -- Two Minute Papers 16:40

[YoussefELG]

DALL-E 2 generated the illustrations, Imagine if the script of this video is written by GPT-3. What a time to be alive, indeed!