AI vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning, Explained Simply

Your spam folder is AI. But is it machine learning? Deep learning? This video untangles the words everyone mixes up, using the spam filter you already use every day. Room 1 of Tech Untangled: AI explained from zero, one room at a time. No jargon, no hype, every fact sourced. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IN THIS EPISODE • Why the old way (hand-written rules) kept failing • What machine learning really means: learning from examples, not rules • How a child learning "dog" explains it, and where that analogy breaks • The map: AI ⊃ machine learning ⊃ deep learning ⊃ transformers • Where your maps app, your streaming app and face unlock fit on that map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 The AI words everyone mixes up 00:51 How spam filters used rules 01:33 Why rules failed 02:12 Machine learning: learning from examples 03:28 The map: AI vs machine learning vs deep learning 04:32 Sorting vs writing 04:45 What's next in the series ▶ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/becher-zribi ▶ Next room: Can a machine think? (1950) ▶ Subscribe so you don't miss a room:    / @techuntangledai   💬 Which part needs more explaining? Tell me in the comments. Your questions help shape the episodes ahead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES 1. Google Workspace blog, "Ridding Gmail of 100 million more spam messages with TensorFlow" (Neil Kumaran, Feb 2019): https://workspace.google.com/blog/pro... 2. Google, Gmail holiday spam update (Andy Wen, Dec 2024): https://blog.google/products/gmail/gm... 3. Paul Graham, "A Plan for Spam" (Aug 2002): https://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html 4. Gmail Help, report spam: https://support.google.com/mail/answe... 5. DeepMind, traffic prediction with graph neural networks (Sep 2020): https://deepmind.google/blog/traffic-... 6. Apple Platform Security, Face ID facial matching: https://support.apple.com/guide/secur... 7. Netflix Help, how recommendations work: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/100639 8. Vaswani et al., "Attention Is All You Need" (2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 Narration uses a synthetic voice. Script, research and illustrations by Becher Zribi. #AIExplained #MachineLearning #AIForBeginners