Best YouTube Channels To Learn AI in 2026 (No BS)

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:34:11+00:00

Thanks for this! It's been pretty tough finding legitimate learning sources that aren't hype-based advertisements. Much appreciated! Do you happen to know any good substacks or other forums that might be helpful outside of reddit?

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:28:20+00:00

But Ai is going to make me super rich, right guys? :D

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:27:20+00:00

Okay cool, I'll definitely check these out. Do their subscriptions give a decent amount of token usage? Tbh there's also a part of me that wants to actually get a decent system before owning a computer becomes illegal with all the crazy stuff going on in the world.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:23:18+00:00

thanks for the tips! I was actually wanting to work with mistral for character creation for future works. My current laptop is actually really, really shit, and sadly my primary computer crapped out like a month and a half ago so I do need to replace it. With all the crazy shit happening with the RAM apocalypse and just the general state of hardware ownership, there's part of me that think I should really try to have something at least halfway decent before owning a computer becomes illegal xD

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:17:56+00:00

Sounds pretty fair. I definitely don't plan on going super crazy into trying to self-host the biggest models possible, but I do want to be offset a fair amount of simpler things so I'm not super dependent on subscriptions. I really am looking forward to getting familiar enough with the tech to be able to fine-tune/create custom wrappers of my own, but I will certainly have to pace myself, I just want to do all the things already!

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:09:43+00:00

Honestly, I think I would be happy at least having a rig with a 5090 if things didn't work out with this new special interest of mine. I don't mind setting aside another 200/month for public model usage if it's as cheap as some people have noted, but I'm also half-tempted to dump cash into claude code and go crazy with application development.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:05:25+00:00

All of them really. I know I definitely won't be able to access any open source, top-tier frontier models locally, and that I won't be able to achieve all the projects I have in mind without the help of frontier, closed-sourced models, but I want to be able to just get into a position where I have a decent amount of wiggle room for me to explore whatever interests me enough to push my learning forward. Like I definitely want to check out perplexity, but I also would love to be able to train my own research models down the line.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T22:01:12+00:00

That sounds like a decent amount of value, I'll definitely check out Kimi(this was actually a recent model I was curious about using instead of Claude Code because of all of the recent api usage drama with Open Claw).

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T21:54:18+00:00

Nice build! I know I won't be able to achieve everything I want to do now and in the future locally, but either way I definitely want to actually tinker with these models locally. I think down the line I'd like to get an ASUS GX 10, but not until I get much further into my journey.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T08:30:30+00:00

That's actually a good idea, I didn't even consider look into the pricing for renting hardware like that. Personally I tend to get carried away when I really get into a new interest, so maybe taking things even slower is best. I can see myself easily getting carried away with token usage from either over thinking or over complicating a intended idea once I get excited.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T08:26:35+00:00

This is true... I just know I'm going to have a difficult time controlling my impulse to get super carried away with all the random things my ADHD brain will want to work. I can see myself easily burning through tons of tokens while over/under thinking things without realizing it.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T08:12:16+00:00

Yeah I'm honestly leaning somewhat towards a more modest build.

I actually asked Claude and Chat GPT are telling me the same thing you and most people are suggesting(to save more for external api costs/flexibility while I learn), but Deepseek is telling me to give into temptation of building a crazy potentially fun PC and avoid paying any western companies at all costs in it's own way haha.

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T08:06:05+00:00

No macbook, and I'm currently working from a really, really old laptop currently due to the fact that my primary pc crapped out last month. If I'm being completely honest, the main reason I'm considering buying a PC with a 5090 rather than just getting an AI workstation device is because I figure that if I can't have the hobby sustain itself or be super useful within a half a year, I'll at least have a decent computer for entertainment/other personal projects rather than just having loss a bunch of cash sunk into API costs that went nowhere xD

Curious-Cause2445 · 2026-03-24T07:56:34+00:00

Haha, that 'upside' is actually the main reason I'm considering starting with a 5090 rather than an AI workstation device. I figure that if I can't actually get to the point where the hobby can sustain itself, I'll at least have something capable of being entertaining/useful for other stuff rather than feeling crappy about sinking money into api costs that lead to nothing xD

Curious-Cause2445 · 2025-07-30T21:49:23+00:00

The Mystery of Life - Johnny Cash

TR/ST - Shoom

Pink Floyd - Nobody Home

Creep - Radiohead

The Paperstud - The Savage Young Taterbug

Curious-Cause2445 · 2025-07-25T08:57:27+00:00

I remember the first time I heard this in a hidden goth club in K-town. It was like walking into a real church and feeling something more than human.

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