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Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence

How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch #15

Welcome to Crash Course Artificial Intelligence! In this series host Jabril Ashe will teach you the logic behind AI by tracing its history and examining how it’s being used today. We’ll even show you how to create some of your own AI systems with the help of co-host John Green Bot! AI is everywhere right now and has the potential to do amazing things in our lives.

How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch #15

Season 1 Episode 15 | 10m 19s | CC

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.

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