Awesome Lectures

Just a couple of years ago, the images that AI could generate were so obviously fake, with issues like extra fingers and garbled text. But the tech keeps improving, and it’s harder to spot. In this TED Talk, digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains some techniques professionals use to determine if an image is real, manipulated, or machine-generated.

“Chemistry for all!” Dr. Andrew Z. Szydło is a chemistry teacher. He has what TED Talks calls a “pyrotechnical” approach to teaching. Watch him illustrate the basics of chemistry and the most important discoveries by racing through numerous experiments during his lecture.

Ideally, you’ll strap on a VR headset for this, but if you don’t have one, you can still appreciate the ethereal fractal journey that Julius Horsthuis has laid before you, accompanied by excerpts from one of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins‘ most profound lectures.