Whyroscope

How things work, one piece at a time.

Whyroscope is a channel of short, animated explainers about how the things around us work: technology, science and engineering, drawn with paper stickers and built piece by piece. Every episode is researched, and its sources are listed in the description.

First episode

How AI Chatbots Actually Write (and Why They Make Things Up): what tokens are, the next-piece game, the temperature dial, and two reasons chatbots make things up.