ML Youtube Channel Tier List
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2 min readOct 15, 2023
By Brian Song
You are interested in ML. You find a youtube video explaining a concept. You watch it and... you don’t understand antything. This is a common problem. Below are some curated ML youtube channels that will allow you to better understand the topic.
Note: Low tier channels on this list are not bad! These are curated from a list of channels that I determined were good. So these ranks are just relational to each other, not overall standing. If they were, they would all be A rank or above. Also these are my opinions.
Rank: C
- Bycloud https://youtube.com/@bycloudAI?si=8pGk_rEwX2t_4etV Description: Focuses more on art generation papers and has the technical background to explain them
- Aleksa Gordic https://youtube.com/@TheAIEpiphany?si=BRQVJbe2XTGYQX02 Description: Explains some ML papers, has some career advice, does interviews with experts
- FreeCodeCamp.org https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp Description: If you really want to, you can watch their full 25 hour long PyTorch course
Rank: B
- AI explained https://youtube.com/@aiexplained-official?si=JE9rUSt7W0Ltz1qG Description: Explains new AI news. Sometimes it is overwhelming since there is so much new AI stuff
- 3Blue1Brown https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown Description: Has videos visualizing neural networks and also goes into the math behind it.
Rank: A
- Two Minute Papers https://youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers?si=vZD4sUTizgpmhmSm Description: Does not go too technical when explaining new cool CS research although for some reason explanations are more than 2 minutes?
- Andrej Karpahty https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy Description: Former Director of AI at Tesla. Has videos coding from scratch with just numpy teaching ML concepts.
Rank: S
- Stanford Online https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordonline Description: Has full video lectures for CS classes like NLP, Intro to ML, etc.
- StatQuest with Josh Starmer https://youtube.com/@statquest?si=AygpY2i9fimylDIu Description: I am not exaggerating when I say this: This guy talks to you like you are a 5 year old — which is great! Goes through step by step ML related concepts like statistics, how an algorithm works (what number do you add/multiply).
- Yannic Kilcher https://youtube.com/@YannicKilcher?si=aqf6nTC30jUDCHSL Description: Explains papers, does interviews with paper authors. What differentiates him is that when he explains papers, he does it step by step, like drawing things out. For paper explanations he assumes the audience has good foundation in ML
