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I'm subscribed to his channel, as he's covered some great science topics in the past. I skipped this video based on the title - it doesn't tell me anything about the content and "feels" more like a plea for the video to be watched than some good science broken down.

I imagine that, over time, this may shift his target audience. But if a new audience is comprised of a demographic he's aiming to reach, and it gets him the views, I can't fault his decision on how he titles the videos, even if they have me skipping them.



He updated the title. I watched it when he posted it, at that time it ended in “(for AI)”

I think he’s experimenting with clickbait.


Committed to, actually. He made a video about how they were going to start doing it more: https://youtu.be/fHsa9DqmId8?t=1035. Also, more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng.


I thought it was actually just native advertising for Mythic.

Besides that I think the topic is prescient; there's a company local to me in Australia called Brainchip that is doing something similar I think. Given that NNs are just a bunch of matrix multiplications it's a promising approach.

I occasionally used to watch Smarter Every Day then he started doing a lot of this stuff, I think one of them might have been for an oil or defense company which I found utterly gross and I've avoided watching the channel ever since.




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