The Glimmer in our Eye - with Grant Sanderson from 3Blue1Brown

Man, okay.

I feel like every time that you ask about AI in some way, it's worth separating out what specifically you mean, because it can mean like 20 different things.

And so on this front, you've got like using it as part of the creation pipeline is like one way that question would be relevant.

One is like as a topic matter for videos, because I have a series about neural networks.

There's like demand for more things like that.

There is...

We won't call them three blue and brown copycats, but we'll say people who want to make end-to-end LLM creates a math video on YouTube.

A natural way to do that is by using the tool that I use for the videos because it's programmatic and that's something LLMs are very good at.

And then there's like, you actually were describing this before we recorded and it resonated so much where you said you feel a certain obligation to like comment about the goings on of AI and math.

And you're like, I kind of want to just keep doing my normal thing.

And so one of the most salient things in my mind for how it's affected it is I've had this project going for like over a year and a half of collecting interview footage with mathematicians for their thoughts on AI and math with the intent of making like a documentary type thing with it.

which I will make, it kind of feels like a burden on the shoulders of a thing that I kind of have to do.

We're like, well, okay, okay, I've got to make use of this.

I've got to make some kind of comment in this space, which feels slightly at odds with just what I love doing, showing the beauty of math and diving into a problem.

I think the spirit of your question was maybe in that first category of like using it in production.

And even that splits into like, forgive me for just like breaking this all down into this infinite tree, but that splits down into so many different things.

Cause you've got, there are tools for AI to like translate your content.

You've got like image generation and, you know, video generation type stuff.

You get like writing the script.

I mean, you've got like creating the code for it, doing research for it.

So some of these seem like some of them are just toxic, right? Using it for video generation or image generation, one, the results just aren't great.

But even to the extent that there may be okay, it's just a third rail.

The brand damage associated with that is nowhere near worth it.

Um, this year, so I went from working solo last year where like a notable difference this year is like, I have two artists who like work with me right now.

One is an intern.