What the word covers — all of it, not just chatbots — and what a model actually is.
Start here · Episode 1 · 3 minWhat is artificial intelligence?
What the term means, the three kinds of system it covers, and the two ways they are built.
How AI Works
The AI most people have lived with longest and never name.
Machines that see — in your pocket, your car, and on the street.
How a frozen file of numbers turns what you type into what you read.
How pictures get made, and whose work is inside them.
Synthetic speech and music, including the voice reading this.
Moving pictures, and the parts that still give it away.
What went in, who put it there, and who was asked.
The failures, explained by the mechanism rather than excused by it.
What the guardrails are, how they are built, and what they are for.
Working with the machine as it actually is.
Software that takes actions, not just turns.
How progress is measured, and the gap to your experience.
The physical machine under the software, and the bill.
Who sets the rules, who writes them, where a person can show up.
What the evidence says about jobs, separated from what is claimed.
The person behind the films
Srihari Prabaharan
I am a Senior Cloud Application Architect at AWS. Outside work I build software and make independent films.