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How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch #15

Season 1 Episode 15 | 10m 19s

We’re going to talk about recommender systems which form the backbone of so much of the content we see online from video recommendations on YouTube and Netflix to ads we see on Facebook, Twitter, and everywhere else. We’ll talk about three types of systems - content-based, social, and personalized recommendations - and take a closer look at what they're good at, but also why they often fail.

Aired: 11/21/19
Extras
In our final episode of Crash Course AI, we're going to look towards the future.
Jabril tries to make an AI to settle the question once and for all.
We're going to talk about 5 common types of algorithmic bias we should pay attention to.
Search engines are just AI systems that try to help us find what we’re looking for.
We need to save Jabril and John Green Bot’s movie nights.
One of the most common ways we interact with computers is through language
We’re going to focus on the benefits of humans and AI working together.
We create a game and then build an AI to destroy it.
One of the best test spaces for building new AI systems are games.
Robots are built to perform specific tasks.
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In our final episode of Crash Course AI, we're going to look towards the future.
Jabril tries to make an AI to settle the question once and for all.
We're going to talk about 5 common types of algorithmic bias we should pay attention to.
Search engines are just AI systems that try to help us find what we’re looking for.
We need to save Jabril and John Green Bot’s movie nights.
One of the most common ways we interact with computers is through language
We’re going to focus on the benefits of humans and AI working together.
We create a game and then build an AI to destroy it.
One of the best test spaces for building new AI systems are games.
Robots are built to perform specific tasks.