Procedural generation is the idea of using simple rules to generate more complicated items - used in games such as Minecraft and Elite, Zac Garby of the University of Nottingham explains with the use of the game Carcassonne. Zac would like to thank user mlin92 for the graphics used in his...

   As AI systems become more capable, rule-based safeguards, hard-coded restrictions, and simple alignment strategies start to break down. Buck Shlegeris talks about some tactics we might use as detailed in a recent paper. The referenced paper: https: arxiv.org abs 2504.10374 Computerphile is...

   Learn this caching trick for faster code from Dr Mike Pound -- Check out Brilliant’s courses and start for free at https: brilliant.org computerphile (episode sponsor) -- More links in full description below Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career...

   Need to get to your goal quickly? Ensure you plan the right path Robots need to work out how to get from here to there somehow Ayse explains some of the methods they choose. Assistant Professor Ayse Kucukyilmaz is based at the University of Nottingham Thanks to Dave Domminney Fowler for kindly...

   Researchers suggested there’s more AI generated content appearing on the web than human generated content - Mike Pound from the University of Nottingham talks about why this might be a problem. Find the paper Mike’s referencing here: https: bit.ly C AiSlop-GenWebpagesPaper Computerphile is...

   How the data flowing through your cables is organised with Matt Godbolt -- See Jane Street’s training programs in New York, London or Hong Kong at https: jane-st.co Computerphile-programs (channel sponsor) -- More links in full description below Computerphile is supported by Jane Street....

   IP Location services almost work by accident rather than by design, Richard explains how they operate. Richard G Clegg is based at Queen Mary University of London. The video title previously mentioned ISPs which was confusing, title edited for clarity. (an A B thumbnail test also had some ambiguity...

   How does data get organised to be stored or sent serially? Matt Godbolt explains some of the encoding used in old devices like floppy disks. nb At around 10:45 the illustration is inaccurate - when it show the binary numbers, the binary numbers actually occur at a switch of magnetic flux direction...

   Amazing photo-realistic video generation is one thing, but being able to insert yourself in there, how does that work? Lewis Stuart from the University of Nottingham explains how a LoRA means you don’t have a huge retraining job on your hands This video was previously titled "How Sora2’s AI...

   quot;The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" - as the ISO team were designing a beautiful, structured layered model, people were already building their own. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London explains the network layers model. Computerphile is supported by Jane...

   Where does it all start? How is it was say "C is written in C" - Matt Godbolt breaks it down by building it up Find out more about Matt from his blog: https: bit.ly C MGodbolt Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https...

   Mike Pound codes up a demo of the length extension attach he explained in our previous video. Mike is based at the University of Nottingham. Code link: http: GitHub.com mikepound length-extension Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities)...

   SHA2’s weakness explained by Dr Mike Pound -- Check out Brilliant’s courses and start for free at https: brilliant.org computerphile (episode sponsor) -- More links in full description below SHA2 is susceptible to a length extension attack, meaning supposedly secure messages can be added to and...

   How do huge websites keep track of the traffic numbers? Buck Shlegeris outlines the probabilistic counting algorithm ’Hyperloglog.’ Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https: jane-st.co computerphile This video was filmed and...

   It’s an older paper, but it checks out. Rob Miles discusses the problem of ’Sleeper Agents’ - where LLMs could have hidden traits we don’t know about until it’s too late. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https: jane-st.co...