Course Six · The Complete Micro-Course
The whole introductory AI canon, rebuilt as 292 numbered videos — each one a single idea, built in the order the ideas actually depend on each other. No hype, no hand-waving: search before learning, probability before decisions, and every claim traced to the text it came from.
How the course works
Almost everything written about AI starts in the middle — at the model that shipped last month — and leaves the machinery underneath unexplained. This course starts at zero and builds in dependency order. An agent that senses and acts comes before search; search comes before games; probability comes before decisions; all of it comes before learning. By the time a language model appears, every part of it has already been built and numbered.
Three kinds of video: atoms (one definition, mechanism, or distinction, about twenty seconds), procedures (one method, shown step by step — running a search, propagating a constraint, updating on evidence), and capstones (several ideas run together on one real system). Where the field genuinely disagrees — on what these systems understand, on what they should be allowed to do — the course lays out the standard positions and declares no verdict.
The whole map
New videos post daily until the course is complete. Live ones link straight to the short; the rest are on their way.
The receipts
Behind the course sits a reference document in which every definition, mechanism, and claim is traced to its source, with a published verification chain recording where each one was checked. Fourteen of the entries exist only to name a common misconception and sit beside the correct idea, linked in both directions — because in this subject the confident wrong answer is everywhere, and naming it is half the lesson.
This is the first course here outside my own teaching fields — philosophy, logic, and ethics — so the sourcing carries more of the weight than the résumé does. That is the point of publishing it. Spot an error? Tell me the video number and the claim — corrections get made in the open.
Follow along
The course releases in order on YouTube — one idea at a time until all 292 are live. Subscribe to catch each one, or leave your email for an occasional note when a course finishes.
A note when a course finishes. Nothing else.