From Computerphile. Open source tools for creating videos? Lewis decides to help Mike take a break by creating ‘MikeBot3000′ – an AI generated Mike Pound… Segments of this video were created using various tools – where closed source tools were used we have stated as such. Lewis’ link lower down shows you how he chained…

From Computerphile. Following the theme of AI research and safety, Aric Floyd talks about how some Large Language Models might follow the all too human trait of sandbagging – "lying" about their true capabilities. AI Sandbagging Paper: https://www.apolloresearch.ai/research/scheming-reasoning-evaluations Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This…

From Computerphile. The so-called ‘Forbidden Technique’ with Chana Messinger — Check out Brilliant’s courses and start for free at https://brilliant.org/computerphile/ (episode sponsor) — More links in full description below ↓↓↓ Chana Messinger from 80,000 Hours talks about why we shouldn’t give AI access to its own chain-of-thought. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more…

From Computerphile. Mike Pound discusses hash collisions & the birthday paradox — Learn more and apply to Jane Street’s WiSE program in New York, London or Hong Kong at https://jane-st.co/wise-computerphile (channel sponsor) — More links in full description below ↓↓↓ Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at:…

From Computerphile. Bashing out low-level code, it can be annoying to re-type the same commands over and over when you need to repeat a routine. Matt Godbolt explains how we can save frequently used code as a subroutine and reuse whenever its needed. Matt Godbolt is known as the creator of Compiler Explorer, among other…

From Computerphile. Research suggests the rate at which AI is able to stay ‘on task’ is doubling every seven months. Is this the AI equivalent of Moore’s Law? – Sydney Von Arx works on adversarial stress-testing at METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research.) Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting…

From Computerphile. What is Cuda and why do we need it? An Nvidia invention, Cuda is used in many aspects of parallel computing. We spoke to Stephen Jones, one of the architects of Cuda at the recent GTC conference. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile…

From Computerphile. A seemingly simple problem that’s "in general" incredibly difficult! CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris explains his favourite algorithmic fact! Buck wants to thank his friend Peter Schmidt-Nielsen for telling him this great fact. More on the sums of square roots problem: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/79/problems-between-p-and-npc#4010 Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them…

From Computerphile. Discussing how scammers take advantage of the way certain online systems work to leverage the delays. Dr Tim Muller is based at the University of Nottingham. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is…

From Computerphile. As Large Language Models improve, the tokens they predict form ever more complicated and nuanced outcomes. Rob Miles and Ryan Greenblatt discuss "Alignment Faking" a paper Ryan’s team created – ideas about which Rob made a series of videos on Computerphile in 2017. The Alignment Faking paper: https://tinyurl.com/C-Paper-AlignmentFaking Ryan Greenblatt is chief scientist…

From Computerphile. Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang on various applications of GPUs and the rise of AI in all aspects of parallel processing. #nvidia #JensenHuang #Ai #ComputerScience #gaming #GPU #GTC2025 Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean…

From Computerphile. GTC AI Conference is held each year by Nvidia and showcases AI and related technologies. This year Computerphile visited, here’s a taste of what we saw. Full interviews coming soon, and yes, we did speak to him! Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile…

From Computerphile. This video features Dr Valerio Guiffrida. Full details plus info on the NVIDIA GTC offer can be found below in the full description ↓↓↓ Carbon is a brand new programming language still under development. It aims to dethrone C++ by being interoperable & compatible in both directions. Dr Guiffreida from the University of…

From Computerphile. Described as GenAIs greatest flaw, indirect prompt injection is a big problem, Mike Pound from University of Nottingham explains how it is like SQL Injection, except not… Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile…

From Computerphile. Discussing ideas of what happens after Generative AI plateaus, Dr Jakob Foerster is based at the University of Oxford. Try the FLAIR simulator here: https://kinetix-env.github.io/gallery.html?editor=true Papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.23208 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13289 Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.…

From Computerphile. The algorithm for differentiation relies on some pretty obscure mathematics, but it works! Mark Williams demonstrates Forward Mode Automatic Differentiation. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s…

From Computerphile. Relatively speedy-to-access cache saves your computer having to trudge over to the RAM, but with multiple levels of cache memory, how does it all work? Matt Godbolt is known as the creator of Compiler Explorer, among other things! Find out more about him here: https://xania.org/MattGodbolt Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more…

From Computerphile. An AI model that changed the fortunes of silicon valley overnight. Deep Seek has been released open source, and requires far less hardware and investment. Mike Pound is based at the University of Nottingham. EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/tMm7DYTGJ44 Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile…

From Computerphile. Quicksort is a well known algorithm for sorting, Professor Graham Hutton shows how it works and then how to implement it in just five lines of code! EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/7cEaRVEz__I Professor Hutton is based at the University of Nottingham: https://people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh/ Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career…

From Computerphile. Returning to the Markov Decision Process, this time with a solution. Nick Hawes of the ORI takes us through the algorithm, strap in for an epic episode! Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile…

From Computerphile. Delving into the various timescales I hereby your computer, and comparing it to an extremely slow human! Matt Godbolt takes us through computer time v human time! (All timings are approximate!) Many thanks to Space Potatoes for kind permission to use their music: https://2020rendezvous.com/ Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about…

From Computerphile. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com

From Computerphile. The XZ Exploit was an incredible near miss. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London explains how a seemingly helpful contributor hid some code in part of a ubiquitous piece of software. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was…

From Computerphile. Path Tracing takes into account all sorts of indirect light sources to make graphics look real. Building on the previous videos on Ray Tracing, Lewis Stuart demonstrates how Path tracing samples indirect light to create these super scenes. #graphics #computerscience #pathtracing Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting…

From Computerphile. As quantum devices become more accessible, there’s a whole area of software engineering opening up. Mohammad Mousavi specialises in software engineering for quantum computing. Mohammad Reza Mousavi is a professor of Software Engineering at King’s College London & one of the centre directors at King’s Quantum. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn…

From Computerphile. Bayesian logic is already helping to improve Machine Learning results using statistical models. Professor Mike Osborne drew us some sausage plots to explain the idea. Mike Osborne is Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford – Find out more here: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb? Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them…

From Computerphile. What’s in a language? Dr Laurie Tratt breaks it down by creating a brand new programming language by writing an interpreter in a few lines of code. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile More from Laurie: https://tratt.net/laurie/ Dr Laurence Tratt is programmer and…

From Computerphile. Modern CPUs manage to speed up even the simplest code, Matt Godbolt explains how there’s a lot of juggling going on even in the simple use of registers. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.…

From Computerphile. Malleable encryption means you can flip a bit in the encrypted message and the corresponding bit is flipped in the unencrypted plain text. Dr Tim Muller gives us some examples. nb This video is a reupload due to an audio problem with the first version. For those interested there were tones at approx…

From Computerphile. Ray Tracing seems straightforward, but what about reflections and refractions? Lewis Stuart explains how these are managed by a spot of recursion! Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to…