Self-awareness Courses

IEEE

Toward a Trustable, Self-Hosting Computer System

Explore the concept of a self-hosting computer system, focusing on hardware security, trust issues, and the potential for a more secure computing environment.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IEEE

Self-Encrypting Deception: Weaknesses in the Encryption of Solid State Drives

Uncovers critical vulnerabilities in solid state drive hardware encryption, revealing potential data recovery risks and the need for additional security measures.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Wondrium

An Economic History of the World Since 1400 - Self-Interest, Survival, and History

Explore how economics has shaped human civilization, from trade and politics to warfare and diplomacy. Gain insights into historical economic practices and their impact on our globalized present.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Adobe

Nurturing the Creative Self - Adobe 99U Conference Morning Session

Explore strategies for creative rejuvenation, inspiration, and personal growth with insights from industry leaders on combating burnout and nurturing your creative potential.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

David Shapiro ~ AI

DIY ChatGPT- Enhancing RAVEN's Long-Term Memories and Starting to Work on Self-Reflection

Explore techniques for enhancing AI memory, self-reflection, and learning through timestamps, knowledge bases, dream sequences, and heuristic imperatives. Gain insights into debugging and improving AI systems.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

David Shapiro ~ AI

AutoMuse- Synopsis GAN for Self-Improving Synopsis Generators

Explore AI-powered synopsis generation using GANs and GPT-3, delving into creative writing applications, story idea generation, and the challenges of crafting compelling narratives and characters.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Self-Classifying MNIST Digits - Paper Explained

Explore how neural cellular automata can achieve global consensus through local communication, applied to digit classification. Discover innovative approaches to modeling biological systems and machine learning tasks.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Big Self-Supervised Models Are Strong Semi-Supervised Learners

Explore SimCLRv2, a powerful semi-supervised learning approach combining self-supervised pre-training, fine-tuning, and distillation to achieve state-of-the-art results with minimal labeled data.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A New Approach to Self-Supervised Learning - Paper Explained

Explore BYOL, a novel self-supervised learning approach that outperforms baselines without negative samples. Learn about its innovative use of online and target networks for image representation.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Linformer - Self-Attention with Linear Complexity

Detailed explanation of the Linformer model, which reduces self-attention complexity in transformers from O(n²) to O(n), improving efficiency while maintaining performance in NLP tasks.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Synthesizer - Rethinking Self-Attention in Transformer Models

Explores alternative attention mechanisms in Transformer models, proposing the Synthesizer model that learns synthetic attention weights without token-token interactions, showing competitive performance across various NLP tasks.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Planning to Explore via Self-Supervised World Models - Paper Explained

Explores a novel AI approach for efficient self-supervised learning and rapid adaptation to new tasks, using planning in latent space to seek out uncertainty and maximize information gain.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

The Future of AI Is Self-Organizing and Self-Assembling - With Prof. Sebastian Risi

Explore self-organizing AI systems, swarm intelligence, and neural cellular automata with Prof. Sebastian Risi. Discover applications, challenges, and future directions in this emerging field of artificial intelligence.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers - Facebook AI Research Explained

Explore Facebook AI's DINO system, combining self-supervised learning with Vision Transformers for impressive image analysis without labels. Learn about its architecture, methodology, and groundbreaking results in computer vision.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Self-Supervised Learning - The Dark Matter of Intelligence

Explore self-supervised learning as a promising approach for AI to develop background knowledge and common sense, with insights from Yann LeCun and Ishan Misra of Facebook AI Research.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video