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Animated AI

by qwertyforce on 10/24/23, 1:39 PM with 63 comments

• by dpflan on 10/24/23, 4:20 PM

  Nicely designed. Here is another visualizer for CNNs, from research at Georgia Tech:

  https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/

  Another link to various visualization tools: https://github.com/ashishpatel26/Tools-to-Design-or-Visualiz...

  Another one: https://playground.tensorflow.org/

• by qwertox on 10/24/23, 2:27 PM

  Great use of colors. Initially I thought these were AI made, and that those animations are examples.

  But not being so really shows the effort put into this, these are great animations.

  Thanks for sharing.

  * And the videos on the YT channel are really worth watching.

• by anon_cow1111 on 10/24/23, 6:10 PM

  This is a nice project, but please don't hit people with 100+ mbs of gif images without a warning

• by niceice on 10/24/23, 3:58 PM

  Beautifully done. It reminds me of these wonderful 3D animated explainer videos https://www.youtube.com/@animagraffs.

• by jerpint on 10/24/23, 10:32 PM

  I made my own animations once upon a time using manim, not as shiny but might be helpful too

  https://www.jerpint.io/blog/cnn-cheatsheet/

• by api on 10/24/23, 2:05 PM

  I'm excited to see attention layers animated like this. I feel like I'm this close to grasping them.

• by jwilber on 10/25/23, 1:27 AM

  For interactive articles on specific ai algorithms, checkout Amazon’s mlu-explain:

  https://mlu-explain.github.io/

• by asrael_io on 10/24/23, 6:35 PM

  The later slices remind me of a gifted test I failed, because I rabbit holed on dividing the shapes...

• by holtkam2 on 10/24/23, 2:45 PM

  These are great! Would love it if you had a section on RNNs / Transformers. I’d even pay for it.

• by floatrock on 10/24/23, 4:18 PM

  I've often wished the pandas documentation had animations like this. The groupby/split-apply-combine pipeline could probably be explained in one 10-sec clip.

• by renewiltord on 10/24/23, 4:39 PM

  Ah, it's the convolutions part. It's a very nice visual demonstration.

  I'll subscribe on YT. Would be neat to see the other parts: attention and so on.

• by orena on 10/24/23, 7:25 PM

  Very cool! Now Conv3D..

  I always wonder how to present a realistic Conv3D, as with channels it is actually 4D, it is an interesting challenge.

• by ww520 on 10/24/23, 6:27 PM

  Excellent visuals for ELI5 on complicated subjects. I especially like the use of different colors and 3D animations.

• by hunkins on 10/24/23, 3:37 PM

  Love visualizations like this, bravo. There is a mental stickiness to animations like this for me personally.

• by ahamm on 10/24/23, 2:23 PM

  These are sweet - does anyone know how these animations are being generated?

• by blondie9x on 10/24/23, 6:31 PM

  The author says in his videos images on web are wrong but then for the why says they are missing details mostly because they aren’t 3D. Isn’t that incomplete not wrong?

• by pkdpic on 10/24/23, 2:56 PM

  These are excellent! Can't wait to share them with some art folks Ive been trying to explain AI processes to and I can't wait to see more! Bravo :^)

• by i_like_apis on 10/24/23, 6:17 PM

  Cool idea and I like the format. Transformer circuits and attention would be a cool thing too.

• by Vox_Leone on 10/24/23, 5:21 PM

  Congratulations. Great material, great site. Keep up the good work.

• by machinekob on 10/24/23, 2:31 PM

  This is super good looking content i love also his youtube content.

• by cocochanel on 10/25/23, 2:16 AM

  Pixel Shuffle is so satifying :)

• by streakfix on 10/26/23, 1:07 PM

  Very nice illustrations.

• by jlebar on 10/24/23, 4:47 PM

  Shameless plug for a recent blog post of mine where I try to explain ML convolutions, https://jlebar.com/2023/9/11/convolutions.html

• by ekianjo on 10/24/23, 3:38 PM

  Not very helpful to show blocks of only one color...

• by givemeethekeys on 10/24/23, 4:23 PM

  Hi there, I realize that this is dumbed down "without the numbers". Is there a dumbed down "without the numbers" prerequisite I should look at? Thanks!

• by CyberDildonics on 10/24/23, 2:56 PM

  According to this page, scaling an image down is "AI".

• by seydor on 10/24/23, 4:41 PM

  I can imagine kindergartens using legos to teach children "And this is , children, how the multi-head attention works". Matrix algebra as used in AI is very good fit for geometric visualizations. But in the end , it doesn't explain Why it works so good or so human-like. Valuable kindergarten lesson though