AI Explained

Channel and publications

The AI Explained YouTube channel, which joined YouTube in January 2023, covers news about the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. Since 2024 AI Explained has also published the AI Explained Official Podcast on the same subject, whose episodes discuss recent model releases, research papers and AI security.¹²

AI Explained also writes Signal to Noise, a newsletter on beehiiv that offers free and premium updates on AI; its archive includes posts such as "The 3rd Era of AI Language Models" from September 2024.³

Benchmarks and tools

The channel page names AI Explained as the author of SimpleBench, a multiple-choice text benchmark on which people with high-school knowledge outperform frontier language models. Its questions cover spatio-temporal reasoning, social intelligence and trick questions, and the SimpleBench team publishes a report, a leaderboard, a public dataset and MIT-licensed evaluation code.¹⁴⁶

AI Explained is also listed as the solo developer of LM Council, a site for comparing frontier AI systems side by side.¹⁵

Work and contributions

• AI Explained (YouTube channel) Show, channel or publication

  Videos covering the arrival of smarter-than-human AI, with a companion AI Explained Official Podcast covering the same subject.¹²

• Signal to Noise Show, channel or publication

  Newsletter posts by AI Explained with updates on the arrival of smarter-than-human AI.³

• SimpleBench Open data

  Multiple-choice text benchmark for language models covering spatio-temporal reasoning, social intelligence, and trick questions, with a public dataset and leaderboard; the channel page names AI Explained as its author.⁴¹

Timeline

1. Jan 3, 2023The AI Explained YouTube channel was created.¹
2. 2024Began publishing the AI Explained Official Podcast.²
3. Sep 19, 2024Published "The 3rd Era of AI Language Models" in the Signal to Noise newsletter.³
4. Oct 2024The SimpleBench evaluation code repository was published on GitHub under the MIT license.⁶

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